Mailing list for all users of the OCaml language and system.
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: malc <malc@pulsesoft.com>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Francois Pottier <francois.pottier@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Turning off type-checking
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 02:00:53 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205150157300.706-100000@home.oyster.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020514153734.480C-100000@first.in-berlin.de>

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Oliver Bandel wrote:

> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Francois Pottier wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > O'Caml's type inference algorithm is sub-optimal for at least one
> > reason: it performs the occurs check at every unification step,
> > instead of delaying it until the current `let' binding is exited.
> 
> Would it help to use the Lazy-module and rewrite some parts
> od the application that uses so much time, if written "unlazy"?
> 
> BTW: When (in which kind of application) does the Lazy-module
>      really helps increasing performance?

The compiler itself uses Lazy in environment manager (typing/env.ml)
Xavier et al can probably shed more light on benefits.

-- 
mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com

-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-14 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14  3:10 Gregory Morrisett
2002-05-14  7:10 ` Francois Pottier
2002-05-14  7:56   ` eijiro_sumii
2002-05-14 12:51     ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-15 19:42       ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-15 21:02         ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-14  8:20   ` Alain Frisch
2002-05-14 10:33     ` Christophe Raffalli
2002-05-14 13:39   ` Oliver Bandel
2002-05-15  6:00     ` malc [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-13 13:31 Markus Mottl
2002-05-13 14:33 ` Lauri Alanko
2002-05-13 21:47 ` Berke Durak
2002-05-14 13:33 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-05-14 14:33 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-14 23:17   ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-14 23:34     ` John Prevost
2002-05-15  8:51       ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-15 22:22   ` John Max Skaller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.21.0205150157300.706-100000@home.oyster.ru \
    --to=malc@pulsesoft.com \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    --cc=francois.pottier@inria.fr \
    --cc=oliver@first.in-berlin.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox