From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr 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 15613D55E for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:09:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6V09QI7027779 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:09:26 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Dz1OJ-0002RZ-8e for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:09:19 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to do this properly with OCaml? Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:06:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1122478420.6768.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507310106.46441.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42EC16B6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 arrays:01 arrays:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 exception:01 extensible:01 extensible:01 caml:02 slightly:02 objective:02 seems:03 algorithms:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Sunday 31 July 2005 00:24, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > I originally was somewhat worried whether extensible arrays really would > be such a dramatic improvement - what if the next person needs displaced > arrays, or any other functionality from CL's arrays with their many bells, > gongs, and whistles? But thinking a bit more about it, it seems as if > virtually anything of interest could be accomplished by other means, with > the exception of just extensible arrays. Yes, I think the only advantage of extensible arrays is a slightly improvement in the constant prefactor in the complexity of some algorithms. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists