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Re:Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library by m-j-fox on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:21PM (#14757185)
Please tell me about the parallelism problem? I love that Haskell can auto-parallelize and is very safe. But, I'm ready to kick it to the curb over stupid lazyiness-induced memory explosions. But I'd be sad to go back to having to worry about threads and safety.

I'd love to give OCaml a go. Tell me why I'll end up disgruntled.

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Re:Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library by xfer on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:52PM (#14757991)
There is no parallelism, the runtime doesn't offer any. The best you can do is fork(). But there is an effort ongoing for a few years now, multicore-ocaml, which will be available mainstream when it's Ready(no ETA).
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