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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Basile Starynkevitch'" <basile@starynkevitch.net>,
	"'Vincent Gripon'" <vincent.gripon@telecom-bretagne.eu>,
	<caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Compiling Ocaml sources to c sources
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:36:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004b01cb54fc$9c435020$d4c9f060$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100914124341.GA11500@hector.lesours>

>   * Hacking a C generator inside Ocaml is non-trivial, because of the
>     garbage collector, currified function calls, and tail recursion
>     etc.

BTW, I was always surprised nobody had converted the bytecode interpreter
into a via-C compiler by unwinding the C code the interpreter goes through
to execute a specific OCaml bytecode program. You could even use this with
something like Clang to get JIT compilation to native code. Not very
efficient but surely much faster than interpreted bytecode...

Cheers,
Jon.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14 12:09 Vincent Gripon
2010-09-14 12:16 ` [Caml-list] Compiling Ocaml sources to c sources [NC] Rabih CHAAR
2010-09-14 12:35 ` [Caml-list] Compiling Ocaml sources to c sources David MENTRE
2010-09-15 13:18   ` Vincent Gripon
2010-09-15 19:59     ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-09-15 22:16       ` Vincent Gripon
2010-09-14 12:43 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-09-15 12:59   ` Vincent Gripon
2010-09-15 17:36   ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2010-09-15 18:17     ` Eray Ozkural
2010-09-15 20:37       ` Jon Harrop
2010-09-16  0:38         ` Eray Ozkural
2010-09-16  9:05           ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2010-09-16 10:46             ` Eray Ozkural
2010-09-16 11:11               ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2010-09-14 12:47 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2010-09-14 12:48   ` Grant Rettke
2010-09-15 13:04   ` Vincent Gripon
2010-09-15 19:57     ` Basile Starynkevitch

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