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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953FABBAF for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:03:56 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAF4WdkjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACxcg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,340,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="14981169" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Jul 2008 23:03:56 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6AL3t5e025563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:03:56 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqgCAF4WdkhQW+UCgWdsb2JhbACSJAEBECAEnxg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,340,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="15008150" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 10 Jul 2008 23:03:14 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KH3IB-0000dL-1G for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:03:07 +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 21:03:07 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:03:07 +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 21:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1215717356.24773.17.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <1215721450.24773.25.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 4876793B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 donnerstag:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 ocaml:01 stdin:01 stdout:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 passing:05 parallel:05 On 10-07-2008, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2008, 20:07 +0000 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: >> 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 ? > > No fork() on Windows. And emulating its effects is hard. > open_process + stdin/stdout should do the trick... at least i think so. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall