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From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: David Chase <chase@world.std.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Catching exceptions into strings
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:33:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020612103308.A29595@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020611133017.027fe7d8@pop.theWorld.com>; from chase@world.std.com on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:44:59PM -0400

> And lastly, what does it cost to do the check?  Surely, you did not
> omit the check in the name of efficiency (he says, smirking) without
> first measuring the cost?

The check is omitted in the name of (initial) simplicity of the
ocamlopt code generator, e.g. "for a start, let's map all arithmetic
operations to those of the hardware and see if that's good enough".
I'm not too concerned about the run-time penalty: integer division is
slow even on processors that have it in hardware.

- Xavier Leroy
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-12  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-10 14:27 Gaurav Chanda
2002-06-10 15:07 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-10 21:57 ` Michael Vanier
2002-06-12  8:53   ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-12  9:36     ` Michael Vanier
2002-06-17 12:48       ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-17 16:10         ` Ken Rose
2002-06-11  9:23 ` Guillaume Valadon
2002-06-11 13:28   ` David Chase
2002-06-11 15:37     ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-11 17:44       ` David Chase
2002-06-12  8:33         ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-06-11 21:19       ` Michael Vanier
2002-06-14 21:23       ` John Carr
2002-06-17 12:31         ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-17 21:08           ` John Carr

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