From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB3BBC88 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:39:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j13NdqqU022260 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:39:52 +0100 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 AAA27299 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:39:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j13Ndpxs018071 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:39:51 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CwqZi-000516-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:39:50 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:39:50 +0000 To: Thomas Fischbacher Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Message-ID: <20050203233950.GB7121@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <8008871f05020213362d21ba87@mail.gmail.com> <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <1107403128.32586.223.camel@pelican.wigram> <20050203173556.4acec1c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> <009a01c50a1e$f6c92080$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <4202A6AA.3030807@trdlnk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4202B648.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4202B647.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 serialize:01 notepad:01 hair:98 ...:98 ...:98 strings:01 grave:03 intermediate:03 size:95 long:04 fri:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:22:47AM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > Oh, by the way, there is one more thing which I consider a really > grave issue, which gave us quite a lot of grey hair already: Ocaml > strings have this stupid limitation to 16 MB, which means in particular > that if you serialize a truly large intermediate state of, say, a long > and complicated calculation which accidentally got a bit larger than this > limit (while you did not expect that), well... Got to agree with you on this one ... At least we'll soon all be using 64 bit computers where OCaml doesn't suffer this limitation. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com