Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2008, 20:07 +0000 schrieb Sylvain Le Gall: > On 10-07-2008, Gerd Stolpmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Ocaml you can exploit multi-core currently only by using > > multi-processing parallel programs that communicate over message passing > > (and only on Unix). Actually, it's an excellent language for this style. > > Why only on Unix ?
No fork() on Windows. And emulating its effects is hard. I would subsume Cygwin under "pseudo-Unix", and its fork emulation is so slow that it would be a problem for speedy programs. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
