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X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 jocaml:01 ocaml:01 runtime:01 haskell:01 haskell:01 req:98 2009:98 threads:01 wrote:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 latency:01 functional:02 programming:03 

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 20:38, Jeff Shaw <shawjef3@msu.edu> wrote:
> My understanding is that since jocaml uses the regular ocaml runtime, it is
> also not multicore enabled.
>
> Haskell is a functional language that has good performance that can use
> multiple processors, but the learning curve is steeper and higher.

Haskell has as far as i've understood very poor and unpredictable performance.

> Note that if you're not using a lot of threads, you can use Unix.fork to do
> true multithreaded programming ocaml.

I would get to much IPC latency with that solution.