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		edwintorok on June 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Real World OCaml Yes: * multiple processes (there are a few libraries that can help make it easier) * I/O concurrency with cooperative threads library: Equeue, Lwt or Async * you could also use the built-in Thread module for I/O concurrency but the overhead will likely be higher * you can execute C code in multiple threads in parallel, only OCaml code is limited to a single thread (due to the global lock)

emmelaich on June 18, 2013 [–]

What are those libraries for multiple processes under Ocaml?

I could google but I'm fishing for your recommendations as well.

edwintorok on June 18, 2013 | [–]

Functory, OCamlMPI and Netmulticore (part of OCamlNet). I haven't actually used any of them though, I'm quite happy with Lwt for now.

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