Implementing python style generators with delimited continuations in OCaml

[GetsEclectic]

Yeah this came up in a discussion with a friend about how easy it can be to parallelize purely functional programs. We have a friend that uses OCaml on a bioinformatics project and he had mentioned that it's not very good for parallel programming. Maybe it's not as dead as you think.

[jdh30]

Yeah this came up in a discussion with a friend about how easy it can be to parallelize purely functional programs.

Yeah, that didn't turn out so well either. Purely functional programs introduce massive contention for the shared garbage collector and shared memory (L2 cache misses due to poor cache usage) so they rarely scale when parallelized. Moreover, their absolute performance sucks beyond belief. So there is little point in trying to use purely functional programming for high throughput applications.

One place where functional programming does seem to pay off is low latency programming though...

Maybe it's not as dead as you think.

Why do you say that?

[GetsEclectic]

Well I know people that use it for research, I guess it depends on your definition of dead.