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Re:Multicore OCaml: April 2021 by Buttons840 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:44PM (#27144974)
When people buy a shiny new processor with 8 or more cores, I think it's very natural to want to know you can utilize them.
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Re:Multicore OCaml: April 2021 by slaymaker1907 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:02PM (#27145195)
I think the question is more about what what use cases require multithreading rather than just using multiple processes.
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Re:Multicore OCaml: April 2021 by sshine on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:42PM (#27145689)
In functional programming, simply mapping over data lends itself to trivial parallelism. But yes, the use cases that require it are much more interesting. Basically, background processing.
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Re:Multicore OCaml: April 2021 by pjmlp on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:54AM (#27151182)
Given that UNIX daemons are mostly processes, how is multhreading relevant for backgrond processing?
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