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From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "'kirillkh'" <kirillkh@gmail.com>
Cc: <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] best and fastest way to read lines from a file?
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:15:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004601c80539$6a8a4360$017ca8c0@countertenor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2d02be30710021349m78417caakb3d1afd0714f1ebe@mail.gmail.com>

> A little weird to see such inherently functional construct as fold
implemented imperatively. But it's fine with me, as long as it does the job.
I
> wonder, though, how would the performance of a line counter based on your
code compare with the one suggested by Brian. 

It's faster, though only slightly - I was going to post an imperative
solution earlier, too. Even in Ocaml, a recursive call (tail or otherwise)
has some costs not present in a simple loop. However, I don't agree that
it's more natural - "ugly" is more the word I'd use!


David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:27 YC
2007-10-01 21:55 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-01 22:29   ` YC
2007-10-01 21:55 ` Olivier Roussel
2007-10-02 12:39   ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-10-02 12:56     ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-02 16:15       ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 17:10         ` verlyck, Bruno.Verlyck
2007-10-02 18:02         ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 19:35           ` skaller
2007-10-02 21:05             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:07               ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-02 20:23           ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-10-02 20:49             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:10               ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-02 21:15               ` David Allsopp [this message]
2007-10-02 22:23                 ` skaller

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