[Shootout-list] process creation & message passing chain

skaller skaller@users.sourceforge.net
07 Nov 2004 22:27:20 +1100


Bengt wrote:

"provided that it is still possible to create other tests to measure 
the  limit of concurrent process for the languages in the shootout 
i am all for these 2 tests."

Hmmm. Some systems are limited by kernel thread limits.
My box only supports around 500 threads/processes.

Ocaml (bytecode) can run without kernel support:

"Programs that use VM-level threads must be compiled with 
the -vmthread option to ocamlc (see chapter 8), and be linked as follows: 
        ocamlc -vmthread other options threads.cma other files"

Hmm. Anyone know if Python can run without rebuilding
for VM threads only? Java?

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