Yes, thanks for all the good info. Sorry I didn't realize termite is a part
of chicken. Are there any tutorial/examples of termite chicken? i found
what seems to be a very old paper:
http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/09-germain.pdf

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Ivan Raikov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Lawrence,
>
>    I can only speak from my experiences with Chicken and MPI: it was
> very easy to call the MPI primitives using the Chicken FFI
> functionality and write code for distributed point distance queries on
> a cluster with up to 512 MPI processes. All communication was done
> with vectors of 64-bit floating point numbers; I did occasionally miss
> the ability to use complex datatypes, but I never attempted to use the
> MPI datatype interface, which does not seem too difficult to work
> with. MPI also does not really provide for fault tolerance, so there
> Erlang might have the edge. So I would expect performance would be on
> par with Erlang but perhaps you would have less flexibility and
> options for error handling.
>
>    -Ivan
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > . . . where might Chicken be concerning distributed-concurrent
> programming?
> > How close to Erlang's perfect 10 can you get with Chicken. Of course if
> > Chicken is even better than a 10, let me hear about it.
> >
> > LB
> >
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