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=0.5 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 16B20BB84 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:07:10 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgABAJejfknUnwckm2dsb2JhbACCPJFIAQEBAQEICQoJEbYjhUw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,332,1231110000"; d="scan'208";a="23138603" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 27 Jan 2009 15:07:09 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar8EAJejfknUnw6S/2dsb2JhbACCPMglhUw Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net ([212.159.14.146]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2009 14:07:09 +0000 Received: from [87.114.131.168] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LRoar-0006mI-9u for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:07:09 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tail calls in the JVM and the OCamlJava project Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:11:23 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200901262314.37183.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1233045383.497ec787c70af@imp.ovh.net> In-Reply-To: <1233045383.497ec787c70af@imp.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901271411.23802.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6d9bf6de4bcd60e90e82bf4083369bd4 X-Spam: no; 0.00; unboxing:01 ocamlopt:01 compilation:01 ocaml:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 tail:01 elaborate:07 boxing:08 jvm:11 might:12 ltd:87 issue:14 On Tuesday 27 January 2009 08:36:23 forum@x9c.fr wrote: > - more aggressive unboxing of values, like in ocamlopt (**). Can you elaborate on this? Surely boxing is no longer an issue thanks to JIT compilation? On a related note, the new code generator in Mono 2.2 has made F# Mono as fast as OCaml on SciMark2. So a Mono backend might be a viable option. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e