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Date: | 2008-07-10 (20:24) |
From: | Gerd Stolpmann <info@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: thousands of CPU cores |
Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2008, 20:07 +0000 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: > On 10-07-2008, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> 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. I would subsume Cygwin under "pseudo-Unix", and its fork emulation is so slow that it would be a problem for speedy programs. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------