From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] surprised by string_of_bool
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:14:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805280914.28021.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71CA0AD3E2664A189B3B7DD8C603B1C0@countertenor>
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 09:02:52 David Allsopp wrote:
> > The "correct" strategy seems to be used for string_of_float infinity:
>
> Well, it's just that string_of_bool can only return two possible values
> where string_of_float must perform an allocation each time.
The current implementation of string_of_float happens to allocate in this case
but that is not necessary. It could just as well special case these special
values and return static strings.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 8:19 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-27 23:10 Nathan Mishra Linger
2008-05-28 8:02 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2008-05-28 8:14 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
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