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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chicken-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > > >
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