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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml image blending performance
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:01:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207110154.GA24561@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802062334.02485.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:34:02PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> In this case, most of the speed loss can be regained by simply
> aggressively inlining everything, which is exactly what you (ab)used
> C macros for in the C code.

I don't understand this.  In 'blend2.ml' (which I was responsible for)
C macros are used to inline all the OCaml functions the same as in the
C version.  Yet it's still 70% slower than the C version.

My suspicion was that it was to do with his use of a string as a byte
array.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 20:29 Ilmari Heikkinen
2008-02-06 22:12 ` [Caml-list] " Pal-Kristian Engstad
2008-02-06 23:30   ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-06 23:34 ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-07 11:01   ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-02-07 11:13     ` Dominique Martinet
2008-02-07 12:29     ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-02-07 15:04     ` Jon Harrop
     [not found] ` <854c25eb0802070607t4b2ed641xa3bc19e8384ce23@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-07 14:10   ` Ilmari Heikkinen
2008-02-07 14:08     ` Jon Harrop

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