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sadiq on Sept 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A look back on OCaml since 2011

4.09 (which has just been released) includes a number of changes that are being introduced soley to ease the merging of multicore.

4.10 will also include a recently merged, large change for multicore support: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8713

The plan is to land multicore in trunk through a series of smaller chunks such as #8713

jhoechtl on Sept 22, 2019 [–]

> 4.09 (which has just been released) includes a number of changes that are being introduced to ease the introduction of multicore.

Ocaml multicore has been on the tablet since ... pretty much the dawn of time. It's save to call it vaporware or the duke nukem forever of Ocaml.

logicchains on Sept 22, 2019 | [–]

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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