Concurrent ML
Concurrent ML (CML) is a concurrent extension of the Standard ML programming language.
Sample Code
Here is sample code to print "hello, world" to the console. It spawns a thread which creates a channel for strings. This thread then spawns another thread which prints the first string that is received on the channel. The former thread then sends the "hello, world\n" string on the channel. It uses SML/NJ and CML (note that the heap name will be different on non linux-x86 platforms; you may need to change the line with "cml_test.x86-linux" to something different):
cml_test.cm:
Library
structure Hello
is
$cml/basis.cm
$cml/cml.cm
cml_test.sml
cml_test.sml:
structure Hello =
struct
open CML
fun hello () =
let val c : string chan = channel ()
in
spawn (fn () => TextIO.print (recv c));
send (c, "hello, world\n");
exit ()
end
fun main (name, argv) =
RunCML.doit (fn () => ignore (spawn hello), NONE)
end
Running:
$ ml-build cml_test.cm Hello.main Standard ML of New Jersey v110.60 [built: Mon Nov 27 14:19:21 2006] [scanning cml_test.cm] [library $cml/basis.cm is stable] [library $cml/cml.cm is stable] [parsing (cml_test.cm):cml_test.sml] [creating directory .cm/SKEL] [library $cml/cml-internal.cm is stable] [library $cml/core-cml.cm is stable] [library $SMLNJ-BASIS/basis.cm is stable] [compiling (cml_test.cm):cml_test.sml] [creating directory .cm/GUID] [creating directory .cm/x86-unix] [code: 2170, data: 42, env: 2561 bytes] [scanning 18518-export.cm] [scanning (18518-export.cm):cml_test.cm] [parsing (18518-export.cm):18518-export.sml] [compiling (18518-export.cm):18518-export.sml] [code: 309, data: 37, env: 42 bytes] $ heap2exec cml_test.x86-linux cml_test $ ./cml_test hello, world