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=0.4 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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA38BBAF for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:54:14 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlYBAMlBqUnUnwdkjWdsb2JhbACCKJI7AQEBAQkJCgkPBsF7hBoG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,282,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="35908804" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 28 Feb 2009 22:54:14 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At4FAApBqUnUnw4U/2dsb2JhbACCKNR3hBoG Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.20]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2009 21:54:13 +0000 Received: from [87.112.14.152] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LdX8P-0007Sy-Ax for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:54:13 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:59:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200902280112.24115.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090228212117.GA21715@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20090228212117.GA21715@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902282159.29086.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 3ed77a971c873545551f0b7dff27a90e X-Spam: no; 0.00; high-level:01 ocaml:01 bool:01 arrays:01 datatypes:01 pointers:01 ffi:01 compilation:01 parametric:01 polymorphism:01 2009:98 28,:98 2009:98 frog:98 closures:01 On Saturday 28 February 2009 21:21:18 Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:18:40PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > > You didn't let us in on how it really works. You said "high-level > > virtual machine > > built upon LLVM and written in OCaml". LLVM means too many things to be > > able to decipher what you mean, and your statement is too general. > > I'm still waiting for the open source project ... I'm working on it. I now have: . unit, bool, int, float. . tuples. . arrays. . algebraic datatypes. . function pointers. . tail calls. . generic printing. . catching stack overflows. . C FFI. . JIT compilation to high performance native code. I need to implement closures and a GC before I release anything. Then I'll add parametric polymorphism, exceptions and a front end. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e