Re: [Caml-list] [ANN]: Parmap 0.9.8

2011-11-30 Thread Markus Weißmann
Hi Roberto, imho it would be beneficial to have a global properties that specifies how many workers there should be; like val set_number_of_workers : int -> unit If you're on a octa-core (..) machine you probably always want to use 8 (..) workers so it would be nice to have this as a global prop

[Caml-list] [ANN]: Parmap 0.9.8

2011-11-30 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Dear all, a few lines to announce the (much improved) version 0.9.8 of Parmap, the minimalistic library introduced last August, and that can be useful to exploit your multicore processor with minimal modifications to your OCaml programs. You will find a full description in the README file, as w