From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB36BBAF for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:08:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAHkJdkjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACyCg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,340,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="13011965" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Jul 2008 22:08:05 +0200 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6AK84wT024106 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:08:05 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqgCAHkJdkhQW+UCgWdsb2JhbACSJgEBECAEny4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,340,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="14979645" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 10 Jul 2008 22:08:04 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2Qs-0006Pb-Tp for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:02 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:02 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: thousands of CPU cores Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1215717356.24773.17.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48766C24.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 passing:05 parallel:05 style:93 thousands:91 actually:10 using:15 language:15 regards:20 On 10-07-2008, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > In Ocaml you can exploit multi-core currently only by using > multi-processing parallel programs that communicate over message passing > (and only on Unix). Actually, it's an excellent language for this style. Why only on Unix ? Regards, Sylvain Le Gall