From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA07361; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:16:51 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA07730 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:16:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA30026 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:39:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f8E7der17774 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:39:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from zigzag.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.208.204] helo=zigzag ident=mail) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15hnZb-0005la-00; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:39:39 +0300 Received: from orodeh by zigzag with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15hnZb-0006ea-00; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:39:39 +0300 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:39:39 +0300 (IDT) From: Ohad Rodeh To: horus-l@cornell.edu, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Ensemble distribution 1.20 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk A new distribution of Ensemble is now available. It is downloadable from: www.cs.huji.ac.il/~orodeh Once NFS problems are solved in Cornell, the Ensemble main site at: www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble will also be updated. The release notes are: ------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES 1. A new C-interface, under sub-directory ce. It works under all supported platforms. The README from the CE subdirectory: The CE directory defines a C thin C-interface overlaid on the ML interface. To use the interface one should read the interface file (ce.h) and link with the library --- libce.a on Unix platforms, and libce.lib on windows platforms. The documentation can be found in the doc subdirectory. In the future, CE will form the major C-interface to the system, where HOT and Maestro are overlaid on top of it. The overhead, as measured on Linux, is very low, on the order on 10\% above the cost of direct ML calls. This should be lowered even further in the future. Currently messages are copied between C and ML, we intend to fix this, allowing for zero-copy. Caveats: Due to a bug in the current ocaml distribution, the library is a bit flaky on WIN32 platforms. 2. Removed 4-byte alignment restriction on io-vectors. 3. Various small bug fixes, and documentation patches. - Added documentation to the State-Transfer layer (Xfer). - Stopped supporting the Ethernet mode. - Cleanup of the makefiles. - Other small changes. 4. The current distribution was compiled under ocaml-3.01, due to bugs in the Unix library in ocaml-3.02. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr