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Date: | 2007-09-19 (11:12) |
From: | Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@m...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Can coThreads be used for message passing architecture? |
Jan Kybic wrote: > I have had only a quick look at the web page but I did not understand > whether and how can coThreads be used on a cluster of independent > computers (Beowulf-style) that are only connected by network (no > shared memory) for which I normally use MPI (message passing). >From the TODO file, it seems that the networker engine is not yet complete which means the answer to your question is no (at least for now). I can however report that on a single machine with multiple cores, message passing between CoThreads using the Event module is an absolute pleasure to use. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I have found that Big Design Up Front environments attract people who want to talk about software development, while iterative environments attract people who want to develop software. Is it any surpise that in companies where BDUF is predominant, nobody wants to stoop to coding? Everyone wants to be an 'architect' or a 'Business Analyst' or a 'Product Manager'." -- Reg Braithwaite