Re: [Caml-list] OCaml release roadmap

[Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>]

Sorry, I missed one paragraph: the multicore support is being
developed at OCaml Labs in Cambridge, UK.

Mark

On 11 May 2015 at 09:31, Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com> wrote:
> I can answer two of your points:
>
> I think it's unlikely that multicore support is going to be in a
> production-ready state for 4.03, although I may be proven wrong.  It
> seems plausible that a beta version of the support will be ready at
> that time, however.
>
> Degradation of the performance of code not using the new parallelism
> features (but possibly using the existing thread support) is a matter
> of serious concern for some users, and best efforts will be made to
> minimize or eliminate it.  We will know more on this front in the next
> few months.
>
> Mark
>
> On 11 May 2015 at 07:46, Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr> wrote:
>> On 05/06/2015 07:24 PM, Damien Doligez wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear OCaml users,
>>>
>>> We are now preparing release 4.02.2, mostly a bug-fix release with a
>>> few new features. We are planning to release it in the first week of
>>> June (about 1 month from now). If you want to try a preview, get it:
>>>    - from github: < https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/tree/4.02 > (don't
>>> forget to switch to branch 4.02 after cloning)
>>>    - through OPAM: opam switch 4.02.0+trunk (watch out for the misnomer)
>>> If you find bugs, please report them as quickly as possible.
>>>
>>> As for the next major release, it will include a number of new
>>> features (including, if all goes well, support for multicore). It will
>>> be released some time around the end of this year.
>>
>>
>> Who added the support for multicore?
>>
>> Will it have an impact on the performance of sequential programs (i.e. which
>> don't use multicore)?
>>
>> Does it mean we will be able to write parallel code that scales better
>> than what we currently can get with parmap?
>> I.e. we could see a speedup even if the task is very fine grain.
>>
>> Will we have to rewrite Parmap ? ;)
>>
>>> -- Damien Doligez for the OCaml development team
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Francois.
>>
>>
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