Also for interactive data massaging and visualization.

From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Ashish Agarwal
Sent: 18 November 2010 16:50
To: Alain Frisch
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0)

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr> wrote:

Does performance really matter that much for rapid prototyping/development?

Rapid prototyping for me often involves a couple of lines of code that read in a very large file and do something with it. I have to keep compiling these small programs to native code because the performance of the toplevel is too slow. Then, I have to recompile and re-read the whole file for every little additional thing I want to compute. A high-performance toplevel would help in this kind of work.