Re: [Caml-list] how can I express empty element?

2009-03-09 Thread Laurent Le Brun
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM, AUGER Cedric wrote: > David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: >> >> No, that's not possible. :: is an algebraic constructor, which means, >> among other things, that it accepts no neutral element (well, except >> when the list is infinite, but that's probably not what you'r

Re: [Caml-list] batteries, godi and OS X leopard

2009-03-09 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
We should have a new release of Batteries by the end of the month, though. Cheers, David On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 07:25 -0700, Peter Hawkins wrote: > Hi... > > Yes. The problem is to do with the case of "Compilers.mli": > http://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=168&group_id=1

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Lin
Good catch On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Yaron Minsky wrote: > 2009/3/9 Mike Lin > >> On a superficial scan of its contents, one might conclude that Tim's >> letter to your lawyer may have been written in implied confidence, >> > > I believe you meant "_Jason's_ letter to your lawyer". > > y

Re: [Caml-list] batteries, godi and OS X leopard

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Hawkins
Hi... Yes. The problem is to do with the case of "Compilers.mli": http://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=168&group_id=17&atid=151 I have no idea how you fix this if you're doing a GODI build. I gave up and built everything by hand. Cheers, Peter On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:38

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book

2009-03-09 Thread Yaron Minsky
2009/3/9 Mike Lin > On a superficial scan of its contents, one might conclude that Tim's letter > to your lawyer may have been written in implied confidence, > I believe you meant "_Jason's_ letter to your lawyer". y ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subsc

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Lin
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote: > > I > have, to the best of my understanding, a legal right to use material > from the joint work in the way that I'm using it. While I am fully aware that a public argument over this among poorly-informed non-lawyers is possibly counterprodu

[Caml-list] batteries, godi and OS X leopard

2009-03-09 Thread Yitzhak Mandelbaum
Hi all, I'm having a compilation problem with batteries under godi, running OS X Leopard. Has anyone else encountered this? Any workarounds? I've tried manually compiling compilers.mli (works), but then when I rerun make it deletes all of the build directories as a first step, so I'm out

Re: [Caml-list] how can I express empty element?

2009-03-09 Thread AUGER Cedric
David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: No, that's not possible. :: is an algebraic constructor, which means, among other things, that it accepts no neutral element (well, except when the list is infinite, but that's probably not what you're looking for). And even if the list is infinite, I don't see

Re: [Caml-list] how can I express empty element?

2009-03-09 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
No, that's not possible. :: is an algebraic constructor, which means, among other things, that it accepts no neutral element (well, except when the list is infinite, but that's probably not what you're looking for). Cheers, David On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:59 -0500, Su Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [Caml-list] HLVM is now garbage collected!

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:13:11AM +, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Sunday 08 March 2009 09:35:42 Richard Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:45:41AM +, Jon Harrop wrote: > > > On Sunday 08 March 2009 01:19:20 Jon Harrop wrote: > > > > I have applied to the OCaml Forge to create a new proj

Re: [Caml-list] HLVM numerical performance

2009-03-09 Thread Jon Harrop
On Monday 09 March 2009 11:37:52 Jon Harrop wrote: > HLVM aspires to provide the following benefits over OCaml: I forgot the second most important goal (!): . Easy and efficient parallelism to leverage multicores. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _

Re: [Caml-list] HLVM numerical performance

2009-03-09 Thread Jon Harrop
On Monday 09 March 2009 09:04:57 Jan Kybic wrote: > > The OCaml Forge has kindly accepted to host the HLVM project: > > > > http://hlvm.forge.ocamlcore.org > > Hello. Just out of curiosity: > > I recall reading that one of your priorities for HLVM is performance of > numerical code. HLVM aspire

[Caml-list] HLVM numerical performance

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Kybic
> The OCaml Forge has kindly accepted to host the HLVM project: > > http://hlvm.forge.ocamlcore.org >> Hello. Just out of curiosity: I recall reading that one of your priorities for HLVM is performance of numerical code. Does it mean that you expect numerical code to run faster than natively c

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Using OCaml with SMT solvers

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Hicks
Another option is STP. It's written in C++ I think, with OCaml binders. http://people.csail.mit.edu/vganesh/STP_files/stp.html -Mike On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:09 AM, Grundy, Jim D wrote: You might also want to look at the Decision Procedure Toolkit (DPT): http://dpt.sourceforge.net/ DPT is an o