Hopefully this is a pretty simple question, with the first hunk of multicore support being submitted upstream in mid-2019, where is OCaml multicore development happening? Is it still at the ocamllabs repo? The last commit there is 2 months ago and looks like it might be in need of a rebase, which ma…

There is a multicore repo over here But I’m sure you meant something else. :smile:

Indeed, I mentioned that in my original post. :slight_smile:

@brettgilio My theory is that you may (also) be asking politely about the status of multicore :wink: Indeed things seem to have significantly quietened on the ocaml github repo (at least from an external perspective) as far as multicore is concerned since https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8713 w…

Here are two relevant posts which should answer all your questions: Multicore prerequisite patches appearing in released OCaml compilers now Ocaml-multicore: report on a June 2018 development meeting in Paris Multicore is a really big change to the code base and cannot be merged in one go. This s…

Thanks for sharing these links @kit-ty-kate – I think @brettgilio may already be aware of this. The Multicore prerequisite patches appearing in released OCaml compilers now post is really mainly about https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8713 (already mentioned above by me) but I think it would be us…

(I don’t personally have any more information than what was given in this thread. @kayceesrk has moved to IIT Madras and there seems to be new activity from students there working on the multicore-ocaml runtime; it may be that directing this work has taken some time away from upstreaming work.)

Greetings! I have indeed moved to IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering. The demands of the new job meant that I could not contribute more actively to multicore. OTOH, I am building a nice team to hack on multicore at IITM along with the existing team spread across…

This being a part of the reason why I proposed for OCaml project to use GitHub Projects feature in their repository - #8734 . Moreover, if you move multicore projects under main OCaml GitHub organization , you can use the cross-repository, organisation-wide project boards, which exactly a good fit fo…

[image] kayceesrk: While this is highly desirable, the downside is that reading object fields become a GC safe-point (a point where the runtime might potentially have to do a GC). This complicates the C API since every Field access now has to be a safe point. @kayceesrk , if I remember correct…

I would like to echo @XVilka ’s perspective here. Is there a reason why the development isn’t more integrated in this fashion? @kayceesrk . Thanks to everybody for the great detailed answers! I ask because I am an aspiring compiler hacker, with experience in other high level multicore languages and w…

Where is Multicore development happening?

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The update for January has been posted here: Multicore OCaml: January 2020 update

Topic		Replies	Views
Ocaml-multicore: report on a June 2018 development meeting in Paris Ecosystem multicore , compiler	10	10091	August 27, 2019
Multicore OCaml: January 2020 update Community multicore , compiler , multicore-monthly	14	6871	February 15, 2020
Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update Community multicore , multicore-monthly	13	17286	March 15, 2020
Multicore OCaml: May 2020 update Community multicore , compiler , multicore-monthly	0	8822	June 1, 2020
Multicore prerequisite patches appearing in released OCaml compilers now Ecosystem multicore	16	6862	January 15, 2020

Where is Multicore development happening?

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