About alternatives to Matlab

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 12/12/06, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > Well, work is already under way (already mentioned) to implement
> > Python in Python, including a reasonable compiler (Psyco).
> >
> > The big deficiency of MLton from a concurrency perspective is
> > inability to use multiprocessors.  Of course CPython has the same
> > deficiency.  Same with OCaml.  Is the ML community trying to do
> > anything about this?
>
> Yes. Several MLs support concurrency. Perhaps F# is the most notable in this
> case because it would provide an easier path to JIT (to .NET IL).
>
> Concurrent GC seems to be a lot slower though (e.g. Java or .NET vs OCaml or
> MLton).
>

Would this be of any interest? (specially since the Lisp vs. Python
thread seems to be dying out :-). Its Scheme (Gambit, so one of the
speedy Schemes) with Erlang-like concurrency

http://toute.ca/
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/841


Best,

R.

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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