From: Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>
To: Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] a reckless proposal
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:51:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010724135109.A38516@caddr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010724222616.D20608@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>; from luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:26:16PM +0200
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:26:16PM +0200, Sven wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:08:17AM -0700, Miles Egan wrote:
> > This approach has, in my mind, two advantages:
> > 1. The object system becomes more generally useful.
> > 2. A confusing and non-orthogonal feature of ocaml is subsumed into
> > another, more generally useful and flexible feature.
>
> But object are more heavyweight than plain record, which are, if i am not wrong,
> just named tuples.
I'm not sure about the runtime efficiency of objects, but in terms of memory
usage objects use one more field (word, I think?) of storage than a record with
the same instance members.
--
miles
"We in the past evade X, where X is something which we believe to be a
lion, through the act of running." - swiftrain@geocities.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-24 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-24 18:08 Miles Egan
2001-07-24 19:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-07-24 21:02 ` Miles Egan
2001-07-25 15:15 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-07-26 15:27 ` Miles Egan
2001-07-26 15:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-07-26 16:01 ` Miles Egan
2001-07-26 21:19 ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-24 20:26 ` Sven
2001-07-24 20:51 ` Miles Egan [this message]
2001-07-25 8:30 ` FabienFleutot
2001-07-25 9:30 Dave Berry
2001-07-26 15:35 ` Miles Egan
2001-07-30 12:21 ` Bruce Hoult
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