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 KAA04642; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:57:04 +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 KAA01148 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:57:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9L8v1529110; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:57:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from fpottier@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA03860; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:57:00 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:57:00 +0200 From: Francois Pottier To: Jeffrey Palmer , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement Message-ID: <20021021105700.A3459@pauillac.inria.fr> Reply-To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr References: <200210171055.05646.jeffrey.palmer@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200210171055.05646.jeffrey.palmer@acm.org>; from jeffrey.palmer@acm.org on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:55:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > For my part, I'm under the impression that cross-module functor > specializations (terminology?) in ocaml, akin to C++ template > instantiation, are not optimized in the same manner as C++ templates > (compiled away). Is this true? It is true. However, a source-to-source transformer is being developed at Orsay which statically unfolds functor applications, eliminating this overhead, and suppressing the antagonism between modularity and efficiency. As far as I have heard, it should be released `real soon now'. -- François Pottier Francois.Pottier@inria.fr http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/ ------------------- 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