Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores

From: kirillkh <kirillkh@gmail.com>
To: "Jon Harrop" <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:42:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2d02be30809222342u739de00p76cb3b7e34cffed5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809222003.14386.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

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What about the standard library being single-threaded? How hard will it be
to adjust it for multiple threads, will OCaml maintainers even agree to such
adjustments and how will this affect performance?

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jon Harrop <
jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 22 September 2008 08:51:03 Alan Schmitt wrote:
> > On 21 sept. 08, at 23:41, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > > The good news is that the parallel GC is coming along nicely and
> > > this will be a solved problem before long... :-)
> >
> > I'd love to hear more about this. Could you develop?
>
> Sure thing. I wrote to the guys doing this work a couple of times and they
> were very friendly. Apparently they are currently ironing out the last of
> the
> bugs before going public.
>
> I don't think I am the only person struggling to contain my excitement. :-)
>
> --
> Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
> http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
>
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