Re: [Caml-list] Performance questions, -inline, ...

["Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>]

First link is dead link... which a shame because any article with
metaocaml monads and oleg is bound to be very interesting..
Till

On Jan 7, 2008 5:00 PM, Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
> > You mean it might be possible to recover the performance of C from numerical
> > code with high-level abstractions? Yes. Indeed, I would like to see this
> > done. However, I've never heard of an implementation of any language that can
> > do this.
> >
> <shameless plug>
> With MetaOCaml you can -- see either the long version
> http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/scp_metamonads.pdf
> or the more condensed version
> http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/metamonads/index.html
> </shameless plug>
>
> With a little bit of work, you can achieve all of
> > The simplest route to recovering C performance here is:
> >
> > . Inline "( +. )".
> > . Inline "op1".
> > . Type-specialize "op1".
> > . Hoist bounds checks.
> >
> automatically.  There are three drawbacks:
> 1) the code you write no longer looks like O'Caml but Lisp instead [can
> be fixed with enough campl4 hacking]
> 2) the error messages can be very difficult to figure out [could be
> improved a lot if monads were integrated in O'Caml]
> 3) metaocaml is not as well supported as ocaml
>
> Jacques
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management:
> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
> Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
>



-- 
http://till-varoquaux.blogspot.com/