From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA14971; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:30:26 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15003 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:30:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from verdot.inria.fr (verdot.inria.fr [128.93.11.7]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f859UL911040; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:30:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from ddr@localhost) by verdot.inria.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12111; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:30:21 +0200 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:30:21 +0200 From: Daniel de Rauglaudre To: Alex Cowie Cc: STARYNKEVITCH Basile , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Different types of streams Message-ID: <20010905113021.N5393@verdot.inria.fr> References: <15253.56371.266115.924816@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <200109050913.SAA29689@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0us In-Reply-To: <200109050913.SAA29689@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au>; from cowie@cs.unisa.edu.au on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:43:58PM +0930 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:43:58PM +0930, Alex Cowie wrote: > The convenience of having this parsing facility within the Ocaml > syntax should not be underestimated particularly for program > development under the toplevel. Under the toplevel, you can #load "camlp4o.cma" Remember that the streams and parsers in OCaml have a very bad implementation, not tail recursive and not optimized. We regularly receive bug reports about their slowness and stack overflows when they are used. -- Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/ ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr