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Re:Real World Ocaml announced by oconnor0 on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:15AM (#3641998)
Certainly, but there are circumstances - say high-performance math & data heavy stuff - that benefits greatly from a shared memory implementation.

And the ease of use of multi-process architectures needs to be improved as well.

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Re:Real World Ocaml announced by avsm2 on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:02AM (#3643360)
Note that OCaml is just fine for heavy math and data stuff: the garbage collector has a global lock, but threads work just fine for CPU intensive activities. Just don't generate much garbage (which is important for any data-heavy processing), and all is good.
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Re:Real World Ocaml announced by pnathan on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:04AM (#3642096)
The common case of parallelism is usually fine with process/message passing work IMO.

For the other 20% of the time... threads are awesome. :)

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