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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Mike Lin <mikelin@mit.edu>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Ocaml for Scientific computing
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:46:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190745994.12747.41.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a1a1a0c0709251027v6dc42b38g1138b09f5627dbca@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:27 -0400, Mike Lin wrote:
> On Sep 25, 7:11 am, Alex Mikhalev <a.mikha...@cranfield.ac.uk> wrote:

> For numerical computing, I wish ocamlopt would do at least basic loop
> optimizations, like hoisting invariant values -- this type of stuff is
> easily done manually, but often at the expense of code readability.

Gcc does this quite well I think. However in a higher level 
procedural language (like Ocaml and Felix) it is very hard
to get right and potentially very expensive.


-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 17:27 Mike Lin
2007-09-25 18:46 ` skaller [this message]
2007-09-25 20:38   ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-09-25 21:01     ` skaller
2007-09-26  8:27       ` Florian Hars
2007-09-26  8:53         ` skaller

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