Yes, actually. :P On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Jon Harrop < jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote: > Can you cite any papers from this century? ;-) > > > > Cheers, > > Jon. > > > > *From:* Eray Ozkural [mailto:examachine@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 17 November 2010 13:41 > *To:* Eray Ozkural; Jon Harrop; caml-list@yquem.inria.fr > > *Subject:* Re: [Caml-list] SMP multithreading > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Gabriel Kerneis > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:27:14AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > > As I said even in C good results can be achieved, I've seen that, so I > > know it's doable with ocaml, just a difficult kind of compiler. The > > functional features would expose more concurrency. > > Could you share a pointer to a paper describing this compiler? > > > I can't reveal much, but just to point out that there are indeed more > sophisticated compilers than gcc: > http://www.research.ibm.com/vliw/compiler.html > > So, uh, there are compilers that turn loops into threads, and also > parallelize independent blocks.... Both coarse-grain and fine-grain > parallelization strategies in existing compiler research can be effectively > applied to the multi-core architectures. In fact, some of the more advanced > compilers (like that of the RAW architecture) must be able to target it > already, but who knows. :) Just consider that most of the parallelization > technology is language independent, they can be applied to any imperative > language. So, would such a thing be able to work on ocaml generated > binaries? Most definitely, I believe, it is in principle possible to start > from the sequential binary and emit parallel code! > > Best, > > > > -- > Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy > http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct > -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct