From: Daniel de Rauglaudre <ddr@peray>
Message-Id: <9212211105.AA03738@peray.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Parallel CAML
To: sd@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:05:27 +0900 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <9212171026.AA00160(a)piston> from "sd@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk" at Dec 17, 92 10:26:25 am
> We're thinking of doing some experiments using CAML as the
> basis for a parallel distributed system. (It's only in the
> early stages at present, so don't ask me how!!) Is anyone
> else doing anything with CAML and parallelism? I'd be
> especially interested in anyone who's ported Reppy's
> Comcurrent ML constructs, but anything to do with parallel
> execution would be of interest.
I implemented the continuations functions, a` la SML: "callcc" and "throw"
in Caml-Light. I read Reppy's thesis. I just implemented his basic functions
"channel", "spawn", "send" et "accept" in Caml-Light using continuations.
This implementation of continuations is compatible with Caml-Light
version 0.5 on unix machines. No modification of the runtime is
necessary, just a link with a C program. The functions "callcc" and
"throw" are normal C functions, called from Caml-Light.
Daniel de Rauglaudre
ddr@margaux.inria.fr