Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-3.05: a performance experience

["Alexander V.Voinov" <avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>]

Hi All,

It looks like it's time to introduce continuations in OCaml :-).

Alexander

From: "Mike Lin" <mikelin@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-3.05: a performance experience
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:24:07 -0400

> 
> > I'm intrigued by the relationship between these two parsers. In
> particular,
> > note that my Felix compiler takes 'pull' code, and automatically
> > translates it
> > to the much more efficient 'push' model: ie. it switches the client/server
> > relationship around, a process I call control inversion.
> 
> I'm just curious if you could elaborate on in what respect a push parser is
> "much more efficient"? From my experience pull parsers tend to be easier to
> use because they don't impose an event-driven model on the driver program,
> and also it is trivial to build a push parser on top of a pull parser.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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