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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7264FBBAF for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:19:26 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvkBABayPEjUnw7Vb2dsb2JhbACCM5AMAQwFAgQHEwObaA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,553,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="11209884" Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net ([212.159.14.213]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 May 2008 10:19:26 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1K1GsX-0003U7-Gh for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 28 May 2008 09:19:25 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] surprised by string_of_bool Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:14:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <71CA0AD3E2664A189B3B7DD8C603B1C0@countertenor> In-Reply-To: <71CA0AD3E2664A189B3B7DD8C603B1C0@countertenor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805280914.28021.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6b337998c3283ba549d940018bca992f X-Spam: no; 0.00; bool:01 bool:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 strings:01 string:02 string:02 seems:03 float:03 float:03 static:03 allocate:06 correct:08 perform:11 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