From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45630BBC1 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 10:19:51 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApACANK8G0jAXQIniGdsb2JhbACRcwEBAQ8gmS8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,430,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="11782668" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 May 2008 10:19:51 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m438JoSJ009919 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 10:19:50 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApACAFq8G0hQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACRcwEBAQ8gmS8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,430,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="25782337" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 May 2008 10:19:50 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JsCyB-00084i-07; Sat, 03 May 2008 09:19:47 +0100 Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 09:19:46 +0100 To: Yaron Minsky Cc: Caml List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Core has landed Message-ID: <20080503081946.GA30935@annexia.org> References: <1209764381.8680.38.camel@nyc-qws-018.delacy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1209764381.8680.38.camel@nyc-qws-018.delacy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 481C2026.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 buffer:01 bool:01 stdlib:01 printf:01 mutexes:01 hash:01 syscalls:01 memoization:01 ocaml:01 syscalls:01 bug:01 dependencies:01 polymorphic:01 unix:01 Thanks - I think this is an impressive contribution to OCaml & open source. For those not aware of the full extent of this library, I went through and noted down this non-exhaustive list of features: - Bag (set type with duplicates) - Bigbuffer (unlimited Buffer type) - Bigstring (unlimited String type) - 8/16/32/64-bit signed/unsigned binary packing functions - Bool type - Safe finalization for reading/writing files - Function composition operators - Enhanced versions of stdlib modules such as Arg, Array, Printf, etc. - Mutexes - CRC functions - Dequeue type - Doubly-linked list type - Enhanced exception module - Fast hash table - Force once (thunk that can be forced only once) - Functional queue type - Min-heap type - Enhanced input/output channels - Closed interval type - Interval set type - Read files as lines - Linux-specific syscalls such as sendfile, get/set TCP options, epoll, splice - Memoization - Piece-wise linear interpolation of floats - Polymorphic map and set - Find size of OCaml structures - Space-efficient tuples - Synchronized queues - Thread-safe queues - Convenience functions for Unix times - Timed events - Tuple convenience functions - Extended Unix module filling in some missing syscalls such as sync, getrusage, inigroups, etc. There's a Fedora package here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445074 but note you will also need these dependencies: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=445074 It would be nice to have bin-prot working on all architectures ... Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat