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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>
To: lafitte@cui.unige.ch
Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlopt for ppc64
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:25:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103617539.649.23.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0412202358460.6373@beavertp>

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 01:17 +0100, lafitte@cui.unige.ch wrote:
> I do have a true ppc64 userland... (64bit kernel, gcc, linker, libraries;
> "configure" rightly sees a 64-bit architecture...)
> I'd like to have a 64bit ocamlopt to run my programs that would greatly
> benefit from fast large integer arithmetic.

For large enough integers, you may well see considerable improvements
even when running bytecode just by adding a few simple CPU-specific
operations to the num library.

Note that currently OCaml bignums need a small fix to work correctly on
64-bit architectures (see bug 3299).



      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-21  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-19 12:47 lafitte
2004-12-20 14:49 ` [Caml-list] " Sven Luther
2004-12-21  0:17   ` lafitte
2004-12-21  8:25     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen [this message]

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