From: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
To: oleg@okmij.org
Cc: rixed@happyleptic.org, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANN: Brand-new BER MetaOCaml for OCaml 4.00.1
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:53:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510B7487.90708@riken.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130201065335.44274.qmail@www1.g3.pair.com>
On 02/01/2013 03:53 PM, oleg@okmij.org wrote:
> Francois Berenger wrote:
>> Could it be (ab)used to translate easily a whole program's OCaml source
>> into C code?
>
> In fact at one point MetaOCaml did so -- translated the generated OCaml
> code to C or Fortran. This feature -- called offshoring -- was used to
> generate FFT kernels. The generated C code was good enough to plug as
> it was into the FFTW benchmarking and testing framework. During the
> overhaul offshoring has been separated and left for clean-up and
> re-writing. Now there is a place for it in the overall architecture.
Amazing.
At some point, if MetaOcaml can be made available as an OPAM switch,
people will be able to give it a try very easily.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-01 6:53 oleg
2013-02-01 7:53 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2013-02-26 18:09 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
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2013-02-19 3:37 bob zhang
2013-02-20 1:51 ` Jacques Carette
2013-02-20 14:03 ` bob zhang
2013-01-31 7:49 oleg
2013-01-31 12:23 ` rixed
2013-02-01 2:12 ` Francois Berenger
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