On Nov 19, 2010, at 19:30 , Ashish Agarwal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Hezekiah M. Carty <hca...@atmos.umd.edu> > wrote: > > ocamlscript is certainly a wonderful tool, for prototyping and > otherwise. It unfortunately doesn't help specifically with the "load > a large file and do something with it" case. > > Right. > > Also, I should mention that a high-performance toplevel, combined with new > libraries like OCaml-R, would essentially make OCaml a competitor to Matlab > and R. This would really expand OCaml's scope to an important area.
This was actually the main motivation for OCamlJit, tho we did not specifically need a competitor to Matlab (we use tuareg mode most of the time, to prototype term rewriting/typing stuff, but also for some complex LaTeX generation tasks). After thinking about it for a few days now, I think a native toplevel would indeed solve the problem, in a better way than a byte-code JITter. I'll try to look into the remaining issues with the native toplevel, but I have some other stuff to finish first. Benedikt _______________________________________________ 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
