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From: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
To: "caml" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Bigarray is a pig
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:07:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDMEJDHFAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040723.230533.104027451.oandrieu@nerim.net>

Olivier Andrieu wrote:
>  "Brand*n wrote:
>  > I have been looking at the sources of the Bigarray implementation.
>  > I am chagrined to discover that not only does Bigarray cost a
>  > function call per array element access,
>
> No. Not always: when the type of the array is completely known to the
> compiler at the point the element is accessed, ocamlopt will access
> the element directly, without using the generic C function.

You are saying that even though Bigarray declares its array element
access functions as EXTERN, and implements them in C code, that ocamlopt
ignores this and does something else?  Using some completely different
source code, perhaps?  (And where is that code?)

Would ocamlopt generally perform such tricks for C functions declared
EXTERN?  How?


Cheers,                         www.indiegamedesign.com
Brand*n Van Every               S*attle, WA

Praise Be to the caml-list Bayesian filter! It blesseth
my postings, it is evil crap!  evil crap!  Bigarray!
Unboxed!  Overhead!  Wondering!  chant chant chant...

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-24  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-23 20:36 Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-23 21:05 ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-24  9:49   ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-23 21:05 ` Olivier Andrieu
2004-07-24  9:07   ` Brandon J. Van Every [this message]
2004-07-24  9:59     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-07-25  9:09       ` David McClain
2004-07-24 10:39     ` Markus Mottl
2004-07-23 21:45 ` David McClain
2004-07-23 22:01 ` David McClain

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