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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Unboxing: how to do it best?

Eray wrote:
> What I had in mind was, say, I have this CA simulation or spiking neural
net
> simulation code or a cell simulation, or a quantum chromodynamics
simulation,
> maybe a visualization of an irregular mesh, or some other non-trivial
scientific
> computing application where it's difficult to reduce everything to float
arrays.

FWIW, my ray tracer benchmark was specifically designed to reflect the
performance characteristics of such programs. 

Cheers,
Jon.