From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Travis Bemann <bemann@execpc.com>
Cc: "Gurr, David (MED, self)" <David.Gurr@med.ge.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: ocaml, simd, & fftwgel RE: [Caml-list] Caml productivity.
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:09:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731100914.A29119@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020730212941.A765@execpc.com>; from bemann@execpc.com on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:29:41PM -0400
> However, there is one thing that particularly disturbs me about OCaml
> - the way that it handles floating point values. In OCaml a floating
> point value is always 64 bit, and because only values that are always
> the size of a machine word internally are not allocated, floating
> point values in OCaml are ALWAYS allocated on the heap!!
"Often", but not "always". Detailed explanations on float boxing are
available here:
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/numerical.html
- Xavier Leroy
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 17:58 Gurr, David (MED, self)
2002-07-31 1:29 ` Travis Bemann
2002-07-31 8:09 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-07-31 8:39 ` Noel Welsh
2002-08-01 15:22 ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-01 15:36 Damien Doligez
2002-08-01 16:38 ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-01 16:55 ` Alexander V.Voinov
2002-08-01 16:45 ` Jonathan Coupe
2002-08-02 2:56 Gurr, David (MED, self)
2002-08-02 9:57 ` Noel Welsh
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