From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Jere Sanisalo <xm_ocaml@xmunkki.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml to C
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 12:48:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040509194829.GA24809@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040509115000.A9300@xmunkki.org>
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:50:00AM +0300, Jere Sanisalo wrote:
> Because ocaml compilers/runtimes do not exist for every platform (say,
> consoles). And because compiling to C code could allow you to write
> independent libraries for others to use.
The runtime is actually there for a reason. It is much of what makes
ocaml, ocaml. Even if you could generate C code from ocaml (it probably
wouldn't be very good, unless you did lots of non-compiler-portable
tricks like GHC), it would still need the same kind of runtime. Ocaml
programs generate a lot of short-lived garbage. Without a garbage
collector, the program would eat up a lot of memory.
The native code runtime isn't very big.
I think effort would be better spent porting the runtime to these new
platforms.
Dave Brown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-09 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-07 21:11 Jon Harrop
2004-05-08 21:37 ` John Goerzen
2004-05-09 8:50 ` Jere Sanisalo
2004-05-09 19:48 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-05-10 19:10 ` John Goerzen
2004-05-10 20:03 ` Eric Stokes
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