From: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
To: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: "'David McClain'" <David.McClain@Avisere.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Formal Methods
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:24:15 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410011019290.7501@eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c4a713$ea0e4f00$1b447182@cas.mcmaster.ca>
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Jacques Carette wrote:
> I also see an analogy with type systems such as Ocaml's: in theory, type
> inference is exponential, while in practice it is very fast. This is
> because the worst cases are very degenerate, and do not tend to occur in
> common / meaningful programs.
Well, I this is quite different from what I experience if I use a (perl)
code-generator which spits out ocaml code.
I don't know if this is still a problem, but I already encountered severe
difficulties when trying to compile a fixed constant definition of an
array (length ~380 000) of arrays (length ~10) of strings (length ~4).
--
regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_
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(if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 15:51 David McClain
2004-09-30 17:35 ` Jacques Carette
2004-09-30 18:42 ` Jon Harrop
2004-10-01 8:24 ` Thomas Fischbacher [this message]
2004-10-01 9:01 ` Achim Blumensath
2004-09-30 17:54 ` [Off-topic] " David MENTRE
2004-10-01 7:36 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-10-01 7:51 ` Tom
2004-10-01 9:04 ` Martin Berger
2004-10-01 8:30 ` Hendrik Tews
2004-10-01 9:18 ` Martin Berger
2004-09-30 17:19 Harrison, John R
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