From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve.
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:54:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523185428.GA32681@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705230039.29659.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:39:29AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> If you want your students to be future proof then you would do well
> to prepare them for massively parallel computing on CPUs with
> hundreds or even thousands of cores. OCaml it completely
> ill-equipped for this. In contrast, F# provides native
> threads/locks/semaphores/threads/threadpools inherited from .NET as
> well as async programming via extra syntax. Concurrency is beautiful
> in F# and it works today.
F# scales to hundreds or thousands of cores?
If the OP wants to teach his students about massively parallel
computing, he should avoid the Microsoft lock-in and teach them about
it on Linux clusters.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 22:10 David Teller
2007-05-22 22:22 ` [Caml-list] " William D. Neumann
2007-05-23 13:07 ` David Teller
2007-05-22 22:26 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-22 23:16 ` skaller
2007-05-23 2:46 ` David Thomas
2007-05-23 9:19 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-23 12:49 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 13:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-05-23 14:06 ` skaller
2007-05-23 14:54 ` Florian Hars
2007-05-23 15:11 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 21:48 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-24 8:04 ` Markus E.L.
2007-05-24 8:32 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-24 9:51 ` skaller
2007-05-24 11:22 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-05-23 13:55 ` David Teller
2007-05-22 23:19 ` skaller
2007-05-23 10:41 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-23 13:04 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 13:51 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-24 14:00 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-24 14:00 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 14:20 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-24 14:34 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 14:21 ` skaller
2007-05-22 23:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 18:54 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-05-23 19:27 ` Robert C Fischer
2007-05-23 19:34 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 19:54 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-23 21:46 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 22:14 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-05-24 1:38 ` Revolution Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 2:40 ` [Caml-list] Revolution skaller
2007-05-24 3:21 ` Chris King
2007-05-24 14:24 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 13:40 ` [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve Brian Hurt
2007-05-23 19:29 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23 20:20 ` David Teller
2007-05-24 14:18 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-24 14:23 ` skaller
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