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 BAA12944; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:48:12 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA13233 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:48:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hickory.cc.columbia.edu (hickory.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.202]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6TNm7519583 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:48:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from there (tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu [156.111.84.180]) by hickory.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA29181 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:47:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200207292347.TAA29181@hickory.cc.columbia.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Oleg To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement, Ensemble as an example Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:49:08 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:39 am, Dmitry Bely wrote: > I am not familiar with Ensemble, but they say in its overview that > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble/overview.html > [...] > Ensemble System. > > As Horus/C has matured, we have also encountered issues that recently lead > to a complete reimplementation of the system using a subset of the ML > programming language. To avoid confusion, we have begun to call this > version of our system Ensemble. The subset of ML employed for this work > translates directly into C, which can then be compiled in a normal manner, > and makes no use of ML's garbage collection features. Thus, the choice of > ML has no negative performance implications, and the code itself looks like > C++. > > Does it mean that Ensemble is *not* in fact an Ocaml application? By that, they seem to be saying that C++ would have done an equally good job at improving the productivity over C. Regards Oleg ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners