From: Juergen Pfitzenmaier <pfitzen@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: 32 bit integers
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 23:28:34 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199910292128.XAA00690@sunstroke.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
Xavier Leroy wrote:
> ........................... and calling a C function from Caml is
> expensive -- more expensive than calling a Caml function, and much
> more expensive than open-coding the operations.
>
> > (This second was my guess.) Is there any way
> > to make this kind of extension work better?
>
> There is a way, but it involves modifying the compiler itself
> to add special code generation rules for the primitive operations on
> the new integer type.
I'm very much interested in adding this kind of special rules to
the compiler. Not for Int32 but for long integer and long floats.
Could you give me a pointer where to start work ?
ciao
pfitzen@informatik.uni-tuebingen
next reply other threads:[~1999-11-03 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-29 21:28 Juergen Pfitzenmaier [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-10-21 18:13 Manuel Fahndrich
1999-10-18 14:47 Edwin Young
1999-10-21 14:24 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-10-21 19:17 ` Scott Alexander
1999-10-22 0:00 ` John Prevost
1999-10-22 9:42 ` Xavier Leroy
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