Re: Interpreter vs hardware threads

From: David Gurr (gurr@pop.mrs.med.ge.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 18:25:36 MET

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    > > (Of course, one could always ask the ocaml team that won the ICFP
    > > competition in such spectacular fashion to knock off an
    > > ocaml-to-event-driven-FSM compiler ...)
    >
    > I'm not sure that OCaml is the best input language for generating
    > FSMs, but, yes, generating FSMs from a high-level concurrent language
    > is an excellent approach. You get both ultimate execution speed and a
    > readable, maintainable description of the program. Have a look for
    > instance at Esterel (another glorious INRIA product :-))
    >
    > - Xavier Leroy
    >
    And Lucid-Synchronie? Any thoughts on JoCaml with Cilk-like threads?



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