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From: Peng Zang <peng.zang@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: "Ben Aurel" <ben.aurel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] native vs bytecode
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:09:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808061609.38758.peng.zang@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74a4f4670808061258q30513bbdl446240feab3fdc36@mail.gmail.com>

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What do you mean by "dynamically load"?

You cannot mix native and bytecode generally speaking.

I don't know of any speed comparisons of OCaml bytecode.  You can always 
compile to native code, which is faster, so I don't understand why you would 
want to run anything large with bytecode.

Peng

On Wednesday 06 August 2008 03:58:22 pm Ben Aurel wrote:
> hi
> As I try to acquire more knowledge about Ocaml I made a bit of an
> unpleseant discovery today. I always was fascinated by the execution
> performance of Ocaml. But now I've learned, that this is only true for
> native binaries and I'm a little confused now:
>
> - is it possible to dynamically load native libraries into a native
> program?
>
> - is it possible to dynamically load bytecode libraries into a native
> program?
>
> - is it possible to dynamically load native libraries into a bytecode
> program?
>
> - is it possible to dynamically load bytecode libraries into a bytecode
> program?
>
> - Are there any performance test that shows how bytecode programs
> stack up agains dynamic languages like ruby, perl and python?
>
> thanks
> ben
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 19:58 Ben Aurel
2008-08-06 20:05 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2008-08-07  1:24   ` Matt Gushee
2008-08-07 12:46     ` Richard Jones
2008-08-06 20:09 ` Peng Zang [this message]
2008-08-07  7:38   ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-08-06 21:21 ` Richard Jones
2008-08-07 13:02   ` Kuba Ober
2008-08-07 13:13     ` Kuba Ober
2008-08-07 22:12       ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-08-06 21:47 ` [Caml-list] " Mauricio Fernandez
2008-08-07  0:34 ` Haoyang Wang

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