From: Hongbo Zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>
To: jon@ffconsultancy.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] LLVM OCaml bindings
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:06:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5284F4FF.2000900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01f601cee0a2$aae0b520$00a21f60$@ffconsultancy.com>
On 11/13/13, 2:00 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Jeff Meister wrote:
>> If I have
>> to give up static type safety to work with LLVM in OCaml, then I might
>> as well not use OCaml on that project.
>
> Peter Zotov wrote:
>> Speed? :)
>
> I use OCaml+LLVM for the algebraic data types, pattern matching, functional programming and so on. Type safety of the bindings is way down on the list for me.
agreed, the major benefit for me compared with c++, is compile time
performance, pattern matching and toplevel -- the type safety of the
bindings is nice
but not necessary if it brings too much complexity to the API
> Cheers,
> Jon.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-14 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 4:23 Peter Zotov
2013-11-05 8:12 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-11-05 8:18 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-05 11:09 ` Jacques-Pascal Deplaix
2013-11-05 11:32 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-05 21:00 ` Jeff Meister
2013-11-06 7:19 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-06 7:54 ` Jeff Meister
2013-11-05 21:30 ` Jacques-Pascal Deplaix
2013-11-06 7:06 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-08 9:36 ` Jon Harrop
2013-11-08 10:18 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-08 11:31 ` Jon Harrop
2013-11-08 11:44 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-12 3:44 ` Jeff Meister
2013-11-12 14:13 ` Peter Zotov
2013-11-13 19:00 ` Jon Harrop
2013-11-14 16:06 ` Hongbo Zhang [this message]
2013-11-14 19:29 ` Jeff Meister
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