From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Daniel Andor <danielandor@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parallelism with threads
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:04:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080109160423.GA20285@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d5f7bec0801090646q2e6320b8wc3f3d196066bf414@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:46:39AM -0500, Daniel Andor wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 3:00 PM, Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
> > The heaps wouldn't be able to see each other, but they'd be able to
> > communicate via light weight (and strongly typed) message passing, and you
> > wouldn't have to dink around with sockets, pipes, MPI, or simiar "heavy
> > weight" solutions, so it'd be simpler, and possibly faster. This is not
> > unlike the Erlang model, in fact.
>
> Are there any solutions that do not involve message passing? I have
> heaps of data that barely fits into memory, and sharing that memory is
> the most straightforward way to process it.
>
> If sharing process space is out, are there other ways to share memory?
> How about sys V SHM or MMAP, or variations -- how would that work
> under OCaml?
Yup, see:
http://merjis.com/developers/ancient
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 14:56 Jon Harrop
2008-01-08 19:31 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Andor
2008-01-08 20:00 ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-08 20:19 ` David MENTRE
2008-01-08 20:23 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-08 20:43 ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-08 20:55 ` Jonathan Bryant
2008-01-08 23:47 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2008-01-09 14:46 ` Daniel Andor
2008-01-09 16:04 ` Richard Jones [this message]
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