[MLton] More on parallelism

[skaller]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:41 -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:

> It's a complicated answer, but it seems to generally break down into a few 
> major components:
> 
> 1) Extend the runtime system so that multiple OS-threads can be spawned to
>     run ML code. 

..

You really need to use a new parallel collector, specifically,
one for which multiple parallel collector threads can operate,
and client threads never stop. Anything else will be out of
date for Mlton's target market before the work is done.


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