On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Raj Bandyopadhyay wrote:
> I was wondering if someone has a good explanation for this. I assume it
> has to do with some overhead of malloc, but I'm not sure.
I doubt it's anything to do with malloc. The ocaml runtime does its own
memory management, whic
Raj Bandyopadhyay said:
> Hi folks
>
> I was performing a little experiment to try and quantify some of the
> overhead of memory allocation in OCaml. Here is a the kind of little
> program that I am using for timings:
This experiment does not make much sense. Ocaml has its own memory
management f
Hi folks
I was performing a little experiment to try and quantify some of the
overhead of memory allocation in OCaml. Here is a the kind of little
program that I am using for timings:
let rec alloc3 n l =
if n = 0 then l
else alloc3 (n-1) ((1,2,n)::l)
The alloc3 function allocates a tu
