From: "Warp" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Walter B. Rader" <wrader@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Byte-code -> native code conversion?
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 01:37:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001f01c193ee$e07c8140$92b00d50@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.43.0201021612200.23673-100000@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
> In theory, is it possible to "convert" a Caml byte-code program into
> a native executable (without the source code of that program being
> available)?
>
> I'm wondering if it would be possible to distribute Caml programs in
> byte-code format for portability, and the user may then choose to compile
> the program to native code for speed.
>
> Is this possible? Difficult? Any thoughts?
I think it won't be too much difficult to write a virtual machine which will
convert on-the-flow ocaml bytecode into native asm code, and then call it.
But seems like much efforts have been made in register assignation of the
ocaml interpreter ( under GCC ) to make the interpreter running faster, so
you can use bytecode compilation without a big speed loss.
Anyway, ocaml bytecode "translated" to native asm won't be as much optimized
as native can be.
Warp
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