Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 28 February 2009 21:21:18 Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:18:40PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > > You didn't let us in on how it really works. You said "high-level > > virtual machine > > built upon LLVM and written in OCaml". LLVM means too many things to be > > able to d

Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:18:40 Kuba Ober wrote: > You didn't let us in on how it really works. You said "high-level > virtual machine > built upon LLVM and written in OCaml". LLVM means too many things to be > able to decipher what you mean, and your statement is too general. I'm referring

Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:18:40PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > You didn't let us in on how it really works. You said "high-level > virtual machine > built upon LLVM and written in OCaml". LLVM means too many things to be > able to decipher what you mean, and your statement is too general. I'm stil

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild and ocamlfind - infer_interface

2009-02-28 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
Excerpts from Guillaume Yziquel's message of Sat Feb 28 21:08:46 +0100 2009: > Hello. > > A small comment on the ocamlbuild wiki, and more specifically on its > plugin for ocamlfind: > > http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Using_ocamlfind_with_ocamlbuild > > This plugin fails to generate .i

Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Kuba Ober
I am developing a high-level virtual machine built upon LLVM and written in OCaml that uses JIT compilation to execute OCaml-like code at break- neck speeds. I just stumbled upon a weird performance result: compiling my VM with ocamlc and ocamlopt produces very different benchmark results fo

[Caml-list] ocamlbuild and ocamlfind - infer_interface

2009-02-28 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Hello. A small comment on the ocamlbuild wiki, and more specifically on its plugin for ocamlfind: http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Using_ocamlfind_with_ocamlbuild This plugin fails to generate .inferred.mli files. The following lines (thanks to bluestorm on #ocaml irc channel) are nee

Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)

2009-02-28 Thread Tim Rentsch
I should add one more thing, which is, I do subscribe to the caml-list email list, but lately I've been busy with other things and haven't been reading it. Since this topic has come up obviously I plan on starting reading it again, and also reviewing recent messages to see if any others should be

Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)

2009-02-28 Thread Tim Rentsch
Caml-list readers, The quoted remarks appended below, sent out to Caml-list yesterday, have just come to my attention. I'm not sure what Jason intended with his post, but I thought I should respond to clear up possible confusion or misimpressions. Earlier this week, a potential reviewer contacte

Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Harrop
On Friday 27 February 2009 21:34:35 Jon Harrop wrote: > Oh dear. Then I am very sorry to tell you that Tim Rentsch's book is > virtually identical to your own, having been tweaked just enough to evade > copyright. Actually the later chapters (about a third of the main text) are entirely different