From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA31510; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA31509 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:04:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4M344X09587 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:04:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (suiren.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id MAA13192; Wed, 22 May 2002 12:03:51 +0900 (JST) To: skaller@ozemail.com.au Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster? In-Reply-To: <3CEA931F.6090700@ozemail.com.au> References: <86lmbeuheg.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org> <3CEA931F.6090700@ozemail.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020522120351X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:03:51 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk From: John Max Skaller > I just built the CVS version of Ocaml > > Objective Caml version 3.04+11 (2002-05-16) > > to check out a fix. Felix seems to run correctly now. > > ***** All 201 tests passed ***** Good > But .. it seems faster, for example my parser builds in 5 seconds .. > was 20 seconds. Am I imagining things? There's a small optimization in the type checker, which can improve performance if you have lots of mutually recursive types. It's rather application specific, so I wouldn't say it would improve performance for everybody, but you can have good surprises. Some exponential cases become linear. Jacques Garrigue ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners