Re: [Caml-list] looping recursion

[brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Daniel Andor wrote:

> On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:57 am, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > Because for smaller list the "vanilla way" is more efficient.
>
> A little benchmarking with short lists shows that for lists that are near or
> smaller than my cache size (skaller's point), the stack map performs better;
> especially in the byte-code case.
>
> However, the thread was originally about long lists, and for that it is clear
> that algorithms other than the vanilla map are better suited.

It's not at all clear to me. Better how? Faster? Less coding effort? Clearer
to others maintaining the code?

> To me, this  just proves that there's no such thing as universal optimisation (yet!).

I agree with that. And I agree with Xavier's prioritization of a clean fix
to this as a "nice to have but not critical". For now, use ExtLib or roll your
own.

> One's got to actually think about the problem at hand. Damn. ;)

Yes. I'm going back to C and assembly code now, thanks to these arguments :-)

-- Brian

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