From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 C191BBBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:33 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtINABN1L0tQW+UMmWdsb2JhbACSGIk2AQEBAQEICwoHE7okhC4EhTc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,433,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="39143568" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 21 Dec 2009 22:21:33 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NMph5-0001nn-Rk for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:31 +0100 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:31 +0100 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: OCaml is broken Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1261325906.6545.39.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-11 (Linux) Sender: news X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocaml:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 gerd:01 ocaml:01 jocaml:01 ocamlnet:01 ocamlmpi:01 20,:98 2009:98 threads:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 dataset:01 On 21-12-2009, Erik Rigtorp wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 17:18, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > Even if I want to process a dataset and partition it and sends the > work to multiple processes there is no framework in OCaml for me to > use. > There are many frameworks at hand, just search for it: - ocamlp3l - jocaml - RPC with ocamlnet - cothreads - Ancient - OCamlMPI They maybe not look like exactly what you want, but they are close enough to do what you want. FYI, I have created a commercial application for sorting/processing big files using OCaml. It runs using multi-processes as fast as other commercial programs that do the same thing. In particular, it runs faster than another well-known program written in C, using threads on Windows and on Linux. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall