Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Procord 0.1.0: Delegate tasks to other processes

[Arnaud Spiwack <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

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I see you are using Unix.kill to kill processes. But I was under the
impression that it didn't work properly on Windows. Am I mistaken?


On 9 October 2013 11:09, Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr> wrote:

> I am happy to announce the first release of Procord, a portable library
> to delegate tasks to other processes.
>
> Obtain it with opam:
>
>   opam install procord
>
> Or, download the tarball:
>
>   https://github.com/cryptosense/procord/archive/v0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> View a minimal, commented example:
>
>   https://github.com/cryptosense/procord/blob/master/examples/minimal.ml
>
> You can browse the API at:
>
>   http://cryptosense.github.io/procord/api/index.html
>
> Procord can spawn local worker processes or communicate using sockets to
> a remote worker server. Workers will receive an input, execute a
> function on this input, and send back the result. Meanwhile, the main
> program can continue to run while waiting for the results.
>
> Not relying on threads, Procord is robust - a segmentation fault in the
> worker will not kill the main program. Not relying on fork, Procord is
> portable - it has been tested on Linux and Windows.
>
> Procord provides an easy way to have the same executable act as a worker
> - local or remote - or as the main program. The actual behavior can be
> specified on the command-line. The default is to run as the main
> program, which delegates tasks by running itself.
>
> I will present Procord at the OUPS meeting of this evening.
>
> --
> Romain Bardou
>
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