> Message > passing is fine for concurrent applications that are not CPU bound or for > distributed computing but it is not competitive on today's multicore machines > and will not become competitive in the next decade.
i don't understand any of this. >2. How do we avoid excessive copying? What if each parallel thread only >requires part of a data structure, should we dissect the data structure to >alleviate message passing? this seems to suggest that message passing implies serialising the data structure. perhaps i missed something, though. _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
