From: Michael Hicks <mwh@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
To: mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at (Markus Mottl)
Cc: skaller@ozemail.com.au, mattias.waldau@abc.se, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml?
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:30:36 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101050030.f050Uas06293@codex.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010103185023.A29666@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> from "Markus Mottl" at Jan 3, 2001 06:50:23 pm
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, John Max Skaller wrote:
> > Actually, I think ocamlopt is _more_ portable.
> > There's no mucking around with custom run-times, etc.
>
> Well, it would be really funny to see OCaml compete against Java in
> the browser market (a rather unrealistic dream, I fear). Wasn't there a
> basic WWW-browser written in OCaml? I am not sure, but I think it also
> supported OCaml-byte code.
MMM, the Ocaml-based web browser, still exists, see
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200005/msg00082.html. However, last I knew,
the Ocaml bytecode lacks the security guarantees of Java bytecode. Dynamic
linking will not violate stated interface constraints, but these can be
spoofed, I believe.
Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-06 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-02 16:07 Markus Mottl
2001-01-02 18:16 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-01-02 19:30 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 12:15 ` Alain Frisch
2001-01-04 8:37 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-01-04 9:04 ` Alain Frisch
2001-01-03 13:23 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-01-03 14:25 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 14:40 ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2001-01-03 15:51 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-03 17:50 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-05 0:30 ` Michael Hicks [this message]
2001-01-08 9:59 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-01-09 6:40 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-03 17:49 ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-03 18:19 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 18:38 ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-03 18:58 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 19:06 ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-04 22:32 ` Jonathan Coupe
2001-01-07 0:16 ` Chris Hecker
2001-01-05 12:52 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-01-05 20:08 ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-09 7:14 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-09 6:50 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-05 12:39 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-01-05 5:48 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-01-03 15:24 Jerry Jackson
2001-01-04 14:12 ` Alan Schmitt
2001-01-09 17:09 Dave Berry
2001-01-11 6:38 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-09 17:18 Dave Berry
2001-01-11 7:00 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-11 10:01 ` Alain Frisch
2001-01-12 7:55 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-11 12:45 Dave Berry
2001-01-12 8:23 ` John Max Skaller
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