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> support for multi-threading (also here); they say that OCaml is finally catching up, 15 years later, thanks to having 100 times as much funding. Yeah, becaus
by yawaramin 4y ago
> support for multi-threading (also here); they say that OCaml is finally catching up, 15 years later, thanks to having 100 times as much funding.
Yeah, because OCaml has millions of lines of production code in many deployments (including Xen i.e. Amazon EC2) so it can't just break backward-compatibility to introduce multicore, nor can it afford to slow down existing code. These are constraints that the various MLs don't have :-)