From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Mattias Waldau <mattias.waldau@abc.se>
Cc: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>, OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:39:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010105133928.B5122@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HDEEKOMJILGEIHIMAPCDEEOMDMAA.mattias.waldau@abc.se>; from mattias.waldau@abc.se on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:16:37PM +0100
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:16:37PM +0100, Mattias Waldau wrote:
> Why do you want JIT? Do you use Java for regular development? It is a pain,
> the reason is
>
> 1. Slow, slow
> 2. Big, big
>
> and the reason that Java gets away with it, is the JIT-compiler. That mean
> that after enormous start-time, the program might achieve resonable
> performance after a couple of minutes. However, at that time, it still needs
> 10-20 extra megs, since the compiler is still loaded into memory.
>
> The beatty of Ocaml are the fast compilers, the optimizing compiler is
> faster than javac, which only produces bytecode. It is sad that so few
> other programming language developers realizes that the speed of the
> development environment matters.
Well yes, but you forget architecture independence. With a JIT-like thing,
you could achieve native-code like speed out of byte-code. not sure though if
it is possible, or if the speed advantage is worth the trouble.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-06 22:20 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
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 [this message]
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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