Ben Kuin wrote: > > A little off topic, but how is Mono/Unix these days? > >> Still leaks memory, > you refer to your examinations? > (http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/mono-22-still-leaks- > memory.html?showComment=1233522107493#c7872630239059031867) > where you say yes and the mono devs are say no to memory leaking?
Yes. > >> has broken TCO > Again, I think other people do not have the same opion on this ( > http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/mono-does-not-support-tail- > calls.html) Yes. They are wrong. > I've introduced the post with some license related concerns, maybe I > should take a step back and think about what I want: > > 1. - programming in a ML like language ( especially the caml family > since I really like those lightweigt type definitions and the pattern > matching that can be applied on those) > > 2. - high performance runtime, preferably a jit based vm, no problems > with TCO > > 3. - a true open source license (approved by Open Source Initiative or > by Free Software Foundation) > > I think this 3 point are REASONABLE but the combination of those 3 > items is INEXISTENT. I'm afraid the situation is far worse. Even if you relax your conditions from "ML-like" to any functional language and even allow broken TCO, there are not only no language implementations satisfying those weaker conditions but nobody is even trying to create such a language implementation. > Ocaml on HLVM: I would appreciate if Jon could make a clear statement > if this is something serious or just a little toy. HLVM is not yet ready for serious use and it may well never compile OCaml but at least it is now compiling code like this: http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/variant-types-and-pattern-matchin g-in.html > A last idea: What do you think about libjit? They claim that a jvm/clr > like runtime could be built in weeks. Wouldn't it be nice to have a > fast vm for Ocaml (ocamljit) ? Does someone has experience with this, > I think writing a fast vm is hard, but a fast vm for a functional > language is nearly impossible? Maybe OcamIL could then be used as a > model for a jit backend, since its MSIL output already runs on libjit > (DotGnu, alias pnet) I think LLVM is a much better choice than libjit. Once you've got that kind of solid foundation to build upon and a decent language like OCaml to write in, you can write a decent FPL implementation in a few man-months. The problem is finding the time... Cheers, Jon. _______________________________________________ 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
