Minor updates for erlocaml (more exactly on ocamerl) … mostly code cleaning and minor refactoring!

Only one new feature: ability for Erlang processes to send message to unregistered ocaml processes. An example of that is “ex_node_mult” which generalize “ex_node_double” by dynamically creating ocaml process to perform a multiplication … yep I know, not very useful


% erlang code using the ocaml node
{byn, OcamlNode} ! {self(), 2},
By2 = receive M -> M after 1 -> error,
{byn, OcamlNode} ! {self(), 3},
By3 = receive M -> M after 1 -> error,
P1 = make_ref(),
P2 = make_ref(),
By2 ! {self(), P1, 21},
By3 ! {self(), P1, 21},
ok = receive {P1, 42} -> ok after 1 -> error end,
ok = receive {P2, 63} -> ok after 1 -> error end

With this feature, ocamerl begin to be usable … and that’s exactly what I will be doing next: experiment with more useful (at least less silly) examples! Some ideas are:

  • tiny mapreduce example with ocaml workers (erlang doing the network part);
  • using the ocaml image processing lib from erlang (not best example as lot of data need to be exchange … this is task to be solved for future erlocaml development);
  • others???