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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Bytecode Interpreter...
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:32:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510220132.43276.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad8cfe7e0510211524n7e9e944eleaf4d2be99e5a56c@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 21 October 2005 23:24, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> I've noted on the computer language shootout that ocaml bytecode is
> slow compared to Java. I'm curious, are there any plans to optimise
> the shit out of the bytecode interpreter? I know it has been a goal to
> not be much more than 1.3x slower than C -- but this only covers
> ocamlopt/native code. Don't you think bytecode should have some
> endeavour to match or better some other language too (Java seems best
> case to me in this scenario).

You may be interested in Basile's ocamljit.

> About the only thing the shootout proves is that ocaml bytecode has
> very good memory use compared to Java.

and brevity.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-21 10:01 Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-21 11:27 ` David MENTRE
2005-10-21 22:24   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-21 23:49     ` Oliver Bandel
2005-10-22 21:33       ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-22  0:32     ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2005-10-22  0:39     ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-10-23  1:03   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-23 10:21     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-24  5:38       ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-24  6:13         ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-10-24  6:48           ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-22  0:39 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26  0:33   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26  9:56 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-26 10:20   ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-27 14:12   ` Damien Doligez
2005-10-28 21:41     ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-10-29 11:29       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-29 15:22         ` skaller
2005-10-30  0:41           ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-10 10:26         ` Damien Doligez

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