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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml, llvm and generating code at runtime
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:08:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001011908.48316.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3E3343.2060809@starynkevitch.net>

On Friday 01 January 2010 17:39:15 Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> LLVM is rumored to be a bit faster, but is also rumored to be slow as a
> pure JIT (just in time) code generated (w.r.t. to other non Ocaml
> implementations - eg SBCL or CLISP common lisp).

Are you saying that LLVM's JIT is slow to generate code or that the code it 
generates runs slow?

> Polyml http://polyml.org/ 
> is also supposed to be a JIT-ed SML implementation (it is SML not Ocaml). A
> few years ago, metaocaml existed, but seems dead today.

Walid said that MetaOCaml was going to relive back in August 2008:

http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/metaprogramming-with-metaocaml.html?showComment=1217617620000#c4695232398067055037

> Happy new year to everyone!

Happy New Year!

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-01 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-01 16:45 Joel Reymont
2010-01-01 17:39 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2010-01-01 19:08   ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2010-01-01 20:23     ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2010-01-01 22:29       ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-01 22:33         ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-01-02  0:06           ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-01 19:31 ` Jon Harrop

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