From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Travis Bemann" <bemann@execpc.com>, "Oleg" <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is anyone using caml for music or sound synthesis?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:42:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001e01c23f78$5c765700$0700a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020809011830.A702@execpc.com>
> Speaking of multimedia, would GC prevent people from writing, say, an mp3
or
> a mpeg player in O'Caml?
>
>Probably not, because OCaml uses an incremental generational garbage
>collector that is rather configurable, so therefore one would probably
>be able to configured the garbage collector to limit GC during
>playing, combined with generally programming in a fashion that would
>avoid allocation (as allocation tends to cause GC to occur, AND
>allocation creates new blocks that have to be GCed once they aren't
>used anymroe).
Yes but such algorithms are making a large use of float calculations, and
ocaml float are boxed into a block, so such calcs could trigger multiples
allocations.
Nicolas Cannasse
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-09 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 20:01 Will Benton
2002-08-08 22:36 ` Oleg
2002-08-09 5:18 ` Travis Bemann
2002-08-09 7:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2002-08-09 8:27 ` Markus Mottl
2002-08-09 8:50 ` William Chesters
2002-08-09 9:38 ` Oleg
2002-08-09 13:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-09 17:01 ` Ken Rose
2002-08-11 20:18 ` Thorsten Ohl
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