From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comparison of OCaml and MLton for numerics
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:30:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705311130.48179.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0705310325n2064c09cp5bd9fead5a046057@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 31 May 2007 11:25:40 Loup Vaillant wrote:
> Talking about lots of float, I suppose you meant arrays.
Not necessarily big arrays. Look at the ray tracer, for example:
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/
Lots of float^3 vectors, float * float^3 spheres and so on.
> In that case,
> can't you use the bigarray module? Or does the overhead of the FFI
> cancel out the benefit of the improved cache coherency?
I couldn't get big arrays to give better performance here.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?e
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2007-05-31 5:50 Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 6:17 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 6:32 ` skaller
2007-05-31 7:31 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 9:08 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 9:22 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 10:27 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 21:30 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 1:22 ` skaller
2007-06-01 1:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 2:21 ` skaller
2007-06-01 2:49 ` Erick Tryzelaar
2007-06-01 3:05 ` skaller
2007-06-01 5:30 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 5:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 6:36 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-06-01 8:09 ` skaller
2007-06-01 8:53 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 8:59 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 9:22 ` Stephan Tolksdorf
2007-06-01 9:49 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 9:32 ` Stephan Tolksdorf
2007-06-01 10:02 ` skaller
2007-06-01 11:29 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-06-01 11:43 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 11:58 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 13:49 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 14:18 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-06-01 14:43 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 14:57 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 15:40 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 15:58 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 16:25 ` Markus Mottl
2007-06-01 16:47 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 23:26 ` skaller
2007-06-01 23:49 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-02 3:26 ` skaller
2007-06-01 12:40 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 13:56 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 11:49 ` David MENTRE
2007-06-01 14:41 ` skaller
2007-06-01 16:52 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 23:33 ` skaller
2007-06-01 16:14 ` Markus Mottl
2007-06-01 16:46 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 17:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-04 14:03 ` Mike Furr
2007-06-04 14:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-04 15:33 ` Mike Furr
2007-06-04 18:08 ` skaller
[not found] ` <9d3ec8300706041518y115d22bdsa120d4010261d841@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-04 22:19 ` Fwd: " Till Varoquaux
2007-06-04 23:40 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-05 2:24 ` skaller
2007-06-04 22:44 ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-06-05 1:42 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-05 10:30 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-10 12:10 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-10 12:58 ` skaller
2007-06-01 14:15 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-06-01 14:37 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 14:39 ` Eric Cooper
2007-05-31 9:24 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 10:25 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-31 10:30 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-05-31 12:12 ` skaller
2007-05-31 7:11 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-31 15:15 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-05-31 15:23 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 15:35 ` Christophe Raffalli
[not found] ` <604682010705310923o5a1ee0eiee5ae697da9d3c60@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-31 20:14 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-05-31 15:16 ` Christophe Raffalli
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