On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 20:38, Jeff Shaw <shawjef3@msu.edu> wrote:
> My understanding is that since jocaml uses the regular ocaml runtime, it is
> also not multicore enabled.
>
> Haskell is a functional language that has good performance that can use
> multiple processors, but the learning curve is steeper and higher.

Haskell has as far as i've understood very poor and unpredictable performance.

> Note that if you're not using a lot of threads, you can use Unix.fork to do
> true multithreaded programming ocaml.

I would get to much IPC latency with that solution.