Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library

Re:Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library by avsm on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:25AM (#14752288)

Multicore is picking up pace, and there will be a paper on the formalised memory model at this year's OCaml Workshop in Oxford in September.

There are a series of milestones to hit: the runtime GC, the memory model, the low-level programming model using one-shot continuations, and how it affects libraries running over it (e.g. algebraic effects). Each of these have associated papers and talks (see the ocamllabs.ionews section), so it's not quite fair to compare it to Duke Nukem Forever :-)

Some quick links to recent papers: - memory model: http://kcsrk.info/papers/memory_model_ocaml17.pdf - programming model: http://kcsrk.info/papers/awkward_effects_ml17.pdf

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Re:Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library by srean on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:57AM (#14753597)

> so it's not quite fair to compare it to Duke Nukem Forever :-)

Apologies if it came out harsh. Oodles of respect for all the work you guys are doing. Its a lot of work and that's why I said things are in good hands.

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Re:Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library by JacobiX on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:43PM (#14756483)

I second on this. The multicore support is not far away. Right now we have a memory model for multicore OCaml and even a multicore OCaml ARM64 backend.

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