Re: [Caml-list] OCaml defunctorization and other optimizations

[Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

2010/5/20 Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>

>
> On 05/20/2010 11:41 AM, Julien Signoles wrote:
> I think that'll have to be someone else than me, as I consider myself
> just a beginner in OCaml.
> However if you think that implementing AST transforms would be possible
> for a beginner (in OCaml, I do have experience with compilers), I'm
> willing to give it a try.
>

I wrote ocamldefun during my master project where I done both the theory and
the implementation of this tool: I was a beginner both in ocaml and in
functional programming since I only wrote a mini-compiler in ocaml during my
studies without any lecture on functional programming. But ok: there were
ocaml experts in my research team which provide me some wonderful helps :-).

>
> I think that if there is a defunctorizer written it should live in the
> OCaml distribution itself (maybe in contrib/).
>

Ocaml is not Coq: there is no such "contrib/" directory ;-). As far as I
know, the Ocaml development team does not accept so much external
contributions (for many good reasons).


> I certainly don't intend to write an external tool that uses OCaml
> internal modules.
>

That is what ocamldefun actually does.

Best regards,
Julien

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