From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56732BC88 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:17:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from first.in-berlin.de (dialin-145-254-052-069.arcor-ip.net [145.254.52.69]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j15JHt31007358 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:17:56 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 68C5AA7D8B; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:27:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:27:04 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Message-ID: <20050205122703.GA484@first.in-berlin.de> References: <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <1107403128.32586.223.camel@pelican.wigram> <20050203173556.4acec1c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> <009a01c50a1e$f6c92080$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <4202A6AA.3030807@trdlnk.com> <20050204105326.GB498@first.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42051BE3.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 bandel:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 serialize:01 binary:01 hair:98 ...:98 ...:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:01:02PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > > > Oh, by the way, there is one more thing which I consider a really > > > grave issue, which gave us quite a lot of grey hair already: Ocaml > > > strings have this stupid limitation to 16 MB, which means in particular > > > that if you serialize a truly large intermediate state of, say, a long > > > and complicated calculation which accidentally got a bit larger than this > > > limit (while you did not expect that), well... > > > > Well, maybe there should be a BigStrings- or LongStrings-Module > > introduced into OCaml-stdlib? > > Well, there is something for opaque binary data, but the problem is that > not all functions one would like to have on them are readily available. [...] What and where? Ciao, Oliver