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From: Eijiro Sumii <eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] MinCaml English Documentation
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:32:23 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308.173223.38699199.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308201306.GA22938@yquem.inria.fr>

From: "Xavier Leroy" <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
> There are hard trade-offs between simplicity, execution speed and
> size of generated code.  However, the compilation scheme I used in
> Caml Light is a reasonable starting point.  It was inspired by
> Phil Wadler's chapter in Simon Peyton Jones's book "The implementation of
> functional programming languages" (out of print, but a scanned version
> is available from SPJ's Web page), and described in details in the
> "ZINC report", http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/ZINC.ps.gz
> 
> Luc Maranget has some papers describing much more sophisticated
> approaches used in the OCaml compiler, if you find so inclined.

Thanks a lot for the references - and yes, that reminds me what I
forgot to mention:

If anybody is interested in a compiler of the complexity "between"
OCaml and MinCaml (and generating byte code or C), it may be good to
take a look at Caml Light, Camlot, or Bigloo.

  http://caml.inria.fr/distrib-caml-light-eng.html

--
Eijiro Sumii (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sumii/)
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-03 22:26 MinCaml: an educational compiler for tiny ML subset (documented in Japanese) Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-05  8:32 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-05 14:37   ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-05 14:48     ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-07  0:20     ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08  3:01       ` MinCaml English Documentation Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-08  4:12         ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08  7:09         ` [Caml-list] " Ken Friis Larsen
2005-03-08 18:59         ` David MENTRE
2005-03-08 19:15           ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-08 20:13         ` Xavier Leroy
2005-03-08 22:32           ` Eijiro Sumii [this message]
2005-03-14 17:31             ` Looking for an efficient implementation of simply typed lambda calculus Sébastien Hinderer
2005-03-15 20:59               ` [Caml-list] " Manos Renieris
2005-03-05  9:46 ` [Caml-list] MinCaml: an educational compiler for tiny ML subset (documented in Japanese) Corey O'Connor
2005-03-05 12:01 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-05 16:45   ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-05 17:19 ` OT: " Richard Jones

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