From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA17072; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17067 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4MGTYH21207 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g4MGTVXt028145; Thu, 23 May 2002 02:29:31 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp45.dyn17.pacific.net.au [61.8.17.45]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id CAA07493; Thu, 23 May 2002 02:29:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CEBC768.1020101@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:29:28 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacques Garrigue CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster? References: <86lmbeuheg.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org> <3CEA931F.6090700@ozemail.com.au> <20020522120351X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Jacques Garrigue wrote: > >There's a small optimization in the type checker, which can improve >performance if you have lots of mutually recursive types. It's rather >application specific, so I wouldn't say it would improve performance >for everybody, but you can have good surprises. Some exponential cases >become linear. > I hereby award Jacques the "understatement of the year" award! exponential to linear is a *small* optimisation?? -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners