On May 29, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:

>
> Has anyone implemented a parallel map function in OCaml using Unix  
> forks,
> pipes and maybe marshalling?

I've implemented a toy version of this, so I can say it does work and  
is not too hard, although I don't still have the code.  My OSP  
project is a concurrency library that would make implementing this  
pretty trivial though: it extends the Event module to work over UNIX  
& TCP sockets and to have a common interface for thread creation /  
forking / remote process creation.

>
> This seems like an easy way to get concurrency in OCaml...

It would also be nice to have a Apply in Parallel / Parallel List  
Comprehension syntax for it a la NESL (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/ 
nesl.html).

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