From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: practical functional programming
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:05:18 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14856.17502.83153.744698@heplix4.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001106100700.00c447b0@shell16.ba.best.com>
Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com> writes:
> I guess my next question then would be related to efficiency: isn't
> there a lot of copying going on if you've got to make a new
> instance of your symbol table just to add an element?
Surprisingly little (if implemented properly, of course). Ogasaki's
book was really a revelation for me ...
Once one has adopted the proper mindset, persistence can lead to very
concise and efficient programs. I was amazed how well it works in a
non-trivial combinatorical applications (e.g.:
http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/omega).
--
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TU Darmstadt -- ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de
http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ [<=== PGP public key here]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-08 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-03 22:44 Chris Hecker
2000-11-04 18:48 ` Chet Murthy
2000-11-05 14:25 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-06 22:26 ` Michael Hicks
2000-11-06 6:55 ` Francisco Reyes
2000-11-06 13:16 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-11-06 18:15 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-07 7:54 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-11 14:32 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-12 13:17 ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-12 20:09 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-13 0:19 ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-13 7:45 ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-11-07 9:06 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-11-07 10:13 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-09 10:56 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-09 21:56 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-07 18:05 ` Thorsten Ohl [this message]
2000-11-07 19:19 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2000-11-06 23:10 Hao-yang Wang
2000-11-06 23:24 Hao-yang Wang
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