From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
To: Stephen Weeks <sweeks@sweeks.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comparison of OCaml and MLton for numerics
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:37:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46602F21.5080503@janestcapital.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <604682010706010715t7d7e503bm82a817338685b9f8@mail.gmail.com>
Stephen Weeks wrote:
> The same arguments that one can make for simple compilation
> strategies leading to predictable performance could be used to argue
> that we
> should all program in C or in assembly.
What's humorous about this statement is that most C compilers now are
implementing a lot of these fancy optimizations, even whole-program
optimizations (see LLVM), which makes predicting their performance
equally tricky to predict.
I think the real reason Ocaml doesn't have advanced optimizations and
whole program analysis is just one of time vr.s value. It hasn't been
valuable enough to someone yet to take the time and put in the work to
implement them. The position of most people on this list, including
INRIA, seems to be "it'd be nice, and we'd definately use it if it were
available, but at the moment we're doing something more important/more
interesting/else..."
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
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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