On Jan 8, 2008 9:56 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to compute in parallel using separate threads rather than
> separate processes in OCaml, i.e. having multiple threads sharing multiple
> independent GCs?

I often wonder about that myself.  I'd like to do very simple OpenMP
style multi-threaded processing.  OcamlP3 is promising, although it is
much more heavyweight.

Does Xavier's "standard lecture on parallelism" still apply?:
  http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/11/64c14acb90cb14bedb2cacb73338fb15.en.html

D.

>
> I'm asking because it looks as though OpenGL contexts can be shared between
> threads but not between processes.
>
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