Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-19 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Yes, Python's hash tables are particularly optimized due to their wide pervasive usage.  When you're testing Python hash tables, you're really testing a carefully-written, thoroughly-tuned C implementation of hash

RE: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-19 Thread David Allsopp
Eray Ozkural wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Yes, Python's hash tables are particularly optimized due to their wide pervasive usage.  When you're testing Python hash tables, you're really testing a carefully-written, thoroughly-tuned C

Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-19 Thread Erick Tryzelaar
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.comwrote: There are two pretty viable alternatives for running OCaml code in a web browser - ocamljs[1] is a JavaScript backend for ocamlopt and O'Browser[2] which is a JavaScript implementation of the OCaml bytecode

Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eray Ozkural examach...@gmail.com writes: On the other hand, Jon's notion of high performance is valid I think. You want to be as close to the metal as possible. Otherwise there is no point in, say, writing a parallel version of the code. In the past we thought that was only possible with C

Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.com writes: Eray Ozkural wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net wrote: Yes, Python's hash tables are particularly optimized due to their wide pervasive usage.  When you're testing Python hash tables, you're really

[Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-14 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 14-05-2010, ben kuin benk...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't this precisely the aim of Jon's hlvm (www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/hlvm/)? licensing: Hlvm is driven by a company and its landing page is on a companies website and one of its protagonists is smart *and* business savvy. What if hlvm

Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-14 Thread Vincent Aravantinos
Le 14 mai 10 à 23:28, Sylvain Le Gall a écrit : On 14-05-2010, ben kuin benk...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't this precisely the aim of Jon's hlvm (www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/hlvm/)? licensing: Hlvm is driven by a company and its landing page is on a companies website and one of its protagonists

Re: [Caml-list] Re: about OcamIL

2010-05-14 Thread ben kuin
sylvain, between the lines I think you're say I'm overreacting. I would put it the other way around and say it's sad when people aren't aware of such details. Once I've tried my luck with the D language, just to give another tragic example. I think if its inventor walter bright settled all those