On Thursday 09 October 2008 22:57:41 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Side note: is there an Ocaml bytecode-compiler written in Ocaml > > somewhere? > > I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the standard Ocaml bytecode > compiler is written in Ocaml. The same is probably not true for > the bytecode VM.
You mean the program that generates OCaml's bytecodes is written in OCaml. I assume Kuba meant that the program that executes OCaml's bytecodes is not written in OCaml. I would love to see an interpreter of OCaml's bytecode that was itself written in OCaml. There are also some obvious derivative projects, like a JIT compilers written in MetaOCaml or written using LLVM (similar to Basile's ocamljit). Once LLVM did some optimizations, it could be interesting to compare the performance of native-code OCaml with LLVM JITted OCaml bytecode. Perhaps some things (like Int32/64) could be greatly improved in performance? -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
