[Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-17 Thread Alain Frisch
On 11/16/2010 03:52 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: OCamlJit 2.0 was specifically designed for desktop processors and is not really portable to anything else in its current shape, because the target audience are people using the interactive top-level and the byte-code interpreter for rapid prototyping

Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-18 Thread Ashish Agarwal
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alain Frisch wrote: > Does performance really matter that much for rapid prototyping/development? Rapid prototyping for me often involves a couple of lines of code that read in a very large file and do something with it. I have to keep compiling these small prog

Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-19 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2010/11/18 Ashish Agarwal : > Rapid prototyping for me often involves a couple of lines of code that read > in a very large file and do something with it. I have to keep compiling > these small programs to native code because the performance of the toplevel > is too slow. Then, I have to re

Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-19 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:09 PM, David MENTRE wrote: > Hello, > > 2010/11/18 Ashish Agarwal : >> Rapid prototyping for me often involves a couple of lines of code that read >> in a very large file and do something with it. I have to keep compiling >> these small programs to native code because the

Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-19 Thread Ashish Agarwal
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Hezekiah M. Carty 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-performan

Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-19 Thread Benedikt Meurer
On Nov 19, 2010, at 19:30 , Ashish Agarwal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Hezekiah M. Carty > 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" ca

RE: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

2010-11-20 Thread Jon Harrop
Also for interactive data massaging and visualization. From: caml-list-boun...@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-boun...@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Ashish Agarwal Sent: 18 November 2010 16:50 To: Alain Frisch Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was