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=0.2 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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80C3BBAF for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:36:46 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,250,1228086000"; d="scan'208";a="20631510" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 19 Dec 2008 23:36:46 +0100 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 mBJMajZF008580 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:36:46 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqoBAHuwS0nLOwFrkWdsb2JhbACTZQEBAQEJCwoHEQSqE1iQbQaCfQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,250,1228086000"; d="scan'208";a="32906572" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 19 Dec 2008 23:36:43 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAHuwS0nLzuai/2dsb2JhbAC+NliQbQaCfQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,250,1228057200"; d="scan'208";a="416165025" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 20 Dec 2008 07:36:40 +0900 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 47964AB12B for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:36:40 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:36:40 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] More cores Message-Id: <20081220093640.a8da1a8c.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <200812192231.33131.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <157727.93194.qm@web111508.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <200812192231.33131.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 494C21FD.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 ocamlopt:01 mire:98 guardian:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 benchmark:04 erik:04 erik:04 actually:10 runs:11 promising:12 source:12 Jon Harrop wrote: > I have actually already started this using the excellent LLVM project and I > just obtained the first promising results yesterday: a simple benchmark where > my compiler runs OCaml code 3x faster than ocamlopt does. Is this going to be an open source project? Is this (or is this going to be) developed in the open with the sources in a publicly available revision control system? Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams in Guardian, 25-Aug-95