Vincent Aravantinos wrote: > Hi, > > I think what Jon means is that, with JIT, polymorphic functions can be > specialized at run-time > and allow optimizations that are not currently achieved by the Ocaml > native code compiler. > > V.
The alternative to specializing at runtime using JIT is to do it at compile time (/ link time) using a form of whole-program analysis. How expensive would this be, and how hard would it be to still support separate compilation? And how much would the OCaml world cry if we didn't have fully-separate compilation? At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, anything binary is bound tightly to the compiler version, and binary distribution of modules seems pretty much impossible due to this and unknown other factors. How much easier would the above be given the source code / some intermediate representation to generate specialized code with? 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
