Re: [Caml-list] SMP multithreading

[Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr>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,


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