Re: [Caml-list] About contributions to the Standard Library

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Montag, den 27.06.2016, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow:
> Why should we contribute when contibutions are just left to bitrot?
> 
> Like: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4909 which has had a
> patch for 6 1/2 year that's just left rotting.

I guess you hit one of the pain points of the current library design,
namely the various integer types (and the issue of combinatorial
increase of possible variants). In my most recent code (a data science
lib) I solved that radically - no support for 32 bit architectures
anymore. The truth is that with current OCaml you cannot support both 32
bit and 64 bit equally well. Either you get a performance loss from
boxed ints, or you get macros in central places of your code.

Of course, that's no excuse for not responding at all.

Gerd
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