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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jon Harrop <jdh30@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Functors
Date: 03 May 2004 10:20:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083543649.20722.415.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405021559.44159.jdh30@cam.ac.uk>

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 02:49, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 15:12, skaller wrote:
> > ...
> > When you instantiate a Set.Make .. you only have
> > the interface. Hard to inline without actually having
> > the body of the functor..
> 
> Sure, so you can't do it if you're creating a DLL for the OS to handle. But if 
> you're making an executable, as I suspect most of us are, then you can do it 
> (perhaps at compile-time, definitely by link-time).

Separate compilation is a tradeoff between
fast building and fast executables.

Ocaml is famous for amortising costs in a sensible
way. In the few cases the costs were critical,
they've been fixed: eg arrays of unboxed floats.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-02  9:12 Jon Harrop
2004-05-02 10:24 ` Martin Jambon
2004-05-02 13:34   ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-02 14:12     ` skaller
2004-05-02 16:49       ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-03  0:20         ` skaller [this message]
2004-05-03 14:43           ` Jacques Carette
2004-05-03 16:09             ` Alain.Frisch
2004-05-03 18:53               ` Jacques Carette
2004-05-03 19:17                 ` [Caml-list] Mathematica Jon Harrop
2004-05-03 22:51                 ` [Caml-list] Functors Alain.Frisch
2004-05-03 16:02     ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-03 18:41       ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-04  7:25         ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-05-05  8:15         ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-05 20:41           ` brogoff
2004-05-06 11:16             ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-06 20:23               ` Alain.Frisch
2004-05-06 18:26                 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-05-06 12:26             ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-06 16:35               ` brogoff
2004-05-02 17:18   ` David Brown

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