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From: "Christopher L Conway" <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Brian Hurt" <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] log function without evaluate arguments
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:39:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a051d930711061939p621c0a8ao4472a82973dcc855@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4730B72B.3000109@janestcapital.com>

On 11/6/07, Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
>  Also, creating a lazy thunk in Ocaml is expensive (like 140+ clock cycles),
> while passing an argument into a function is cheap- and the common case will
> be that the argument won't need to be evaluated, just passed in.

What does this mean? Did OCaml become non-strict while I wasn't looking?

Chris


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 17:05 tmp123
2007-11-06 16:57 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2007-11-06 18:25 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2007-11-06 18:40   ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-06 18:49     ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-07  3:39       ` Christopher L Conway [this message]
2007-11-07  4:00         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-11-07  4:10           ` Christopher L Conway
2007-11-07 13:42             ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-07 10:21     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-11-07  3:40 ` Christopher L Conway
     [not found] ` <4a051d930711061938u25836a85ud28c610312e5896f@mail.gmail.com>
2007-11-07 10:31   ` tmp123

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