From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7636BC0A for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:54:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4NIsT17021674 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:54:29 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hqvye-0000eK-00 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 19:54:28 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:54:28 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve. Message-ID: <20070523185428.GA32681@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1179871823.6966.78.camel@Blefuscu> <200705230039.29659.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705230039.29659.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46548DE5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 ocaml:01 threads:01 semaphores:01 threads:01 async:01 syntax:01 23,:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 concurrency:02 native:02 programming:03 inherited:03 contrast:03 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. -- Richard Jones Red Hat