Re: [Caml-list] stl?

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:15:20PM -0800, Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote:
> Have you ever tried to conform to a specific memory layout? We are often 
> talking directly to hardware, and in those cases it is a prerequisite to 
> be able to produce data that is in the exact format prescribed. Often 
> these things are, put an 17-bit ID followed by a 3-bit CODE followed by 
> a 12-bit LENGTH field, after which follows LENGTH items each of size 
> that is some-function-of CODE.

This is the sort of thing that OCaml-bitstring might be adapted to do.
Now I'm not going to claim that bitstring does this already, because
there is no way it's currently as fast as C/C++ (it involves a copy
for a start).  But a similar language extension might make it
possible.

  http://code.google.com/p/bitstring/

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat