multicore wish [Was: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is broken]

2009-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jon Harrop writes: > We've discussed the problems with that before. Writing a parallel generic > quicksort seems to be a good test of a decent multicore capable language > implementation. Currently, F# is a *long* way ahead of everything open > source. How do you implement it? 1) divide at t

Re: multicore wish [Was: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml is broken]

2009-12-21 Thread Jon Harrop
On Monday 21 December 2009 13:31:10 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Jon Harrop writes: > > We've discussed the problems with that before. Writing a parallel generic > > quicksort seems to be a good test of a decent multicore capable language > > implementation. Currently, F# is a *long* way ahead of