Hi! I've been using Erlang and C++ to build a soft real-time system. As the project has evolved we've needed to write more and more of the code in C++ in order to achieve our latency requirements. But C++ is not as performant as you might think until you start to write your own allocators and cache aligning mallocs and datastructures. I've never liked C++ so I decided to try OCaml and built a simple 100 line program to build order books for Nasdaq. Turns out OCaml has really competitive performance while being a really nice language.
However OCaml is broken! It does not provide any support for multicore architectures, which by now is considered a bug! It doesn't even allow me to load multiple runtimes into one C program. Please fix OCaml! The first step would be to support multiple runtimes running in the same process communicating using message queues. Erik Rigtop _______________________________________________ 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
