From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8FDBC69 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:46:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJTz+EbLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOLAEBAQEHBAYPGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,296,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1457685" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Sep 2007 20:46:37 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAD/y+EZ5LHvc/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,296,1186324200"; d="scan'208";a="197488992" Received: from ppp121-44-123-220.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.123.220]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2007 04:16:35 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Ocaml for Scientific computing From: skaller To: Mike Lin Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <2a1a1a0c0709251027v6dc42b38g1138b09f5627dbca@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a1a1a0c0709251027v6dc42b38g1138b09f5627dbca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:46:34 +1000 Message-Id: <1190745994.12747.41.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocamlopt:01 gcc:01 ocaml:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 numerical:03 alex:03 readability:05 computing:05 computing:05 tue:06 sep:06 On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:27 -0400, Mike Lin wrote: > On Sep 25, 7:11 am, Alex Mikhalev 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 Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net