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From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Looking for a real array
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:46:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030429154634.GA32175@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0304290709250.24660-100000@moussor.isi.edu>

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Hal Daume III wrote:
> > to use the Bigarray module unless you need very large arrays. Normal
> > float arrays, too, are unboxed, but only when the compiler can infer at
> > compile time that they are guaranteed to be float arrays.
> 
> Does this also apply if I have an abstract type defined in another module:
> 
>   > type foo = float
> 
> and then have a foo array?

No, because the compiler cannot see then that it is a float when the
type is abstract. Internally (in the module implementation) however,
the compiler may well use unboxed foo arrays.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

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Markus Mottl          http://www.oefai.at/~markus          markus@oefai.at

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-27 21:34 Eray Ozkural
2003-04-28 16:40 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-28 18:29   ` Eray Ozkural
2003-04-28 18:43     ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-28 18:51       ` Eray Ozkural
2003-04-28 19:05         ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-28 19:05           ` Eray Ozkural
2003-04-28 19:07         ` Falk Hueffner
2003-04-28 19:21         ` Karl Zilles
2003-04-29 10:52     ` Markus Mottl
2003-04-29 14:10       ` Hal Daume III
2003-04-29 15:46         ` Markus Mottl [this message]

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