[MLton] More on parallelism

[Matthew Fluet]

> I'd like to know what exactly would need to be done to implement CML using 
> OS-level threads?  I've run across some abstracts for talks by John Reppy on 
> the subject, and I read the papers from the earlier thread on parallelism in 
> october.  But exactly what would need to be done?  (Depending on what is 
> needed, I could possibly work on parts of it)

BTW, I should also mention that the developers at Purdue have said that 
they were going to attack this problem, so they may have more insight.