From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 08:11:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904050811.43774.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws9zfuyz.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
On Sunday 05 April 2009 07:57:56 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> writes:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2009 22:51:50 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> The beauty of ocaml strings is that they are really compact. An ocaml
> >> string on 32bit is 5-8 bytes longer than the contained string and 9-16
> >> bytes on 64bit.
> >
> > The ugliness is that 16Mb limit. I assume those limits have been removed
> > in batteries?!
>
> As that is a limitation of the GC memory structure of a string there
> is nothing batteries can do there. Not for the basic type string. It
> is also just 32bit that is so severly limited.
Batteries could replace all uses of the built-in string type with another
type, such as a byte big array, just as they have done to implement ropes.
I don't think they could address the array limitation though, because that is
polymorphic.
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-05 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-03 11:56 Strings Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 12:25 ` [Caml-list] Strings Paolo Donadeo
2009-04-03 14:18 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-03 14:46 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 15:03 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 16:52 ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-03 17:50 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 19:46 ` Paolo Donadeo
2009-04-03 20:41 ` Harrison, John R
2009-04-04 10:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 11:12 ` David Teller
2009-04-04 11:40 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 12:34 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-18 12:31 ` Arkady Andrukonis
2009-04-04 10:13 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 21:44 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-04 9:10 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 10:06 ` Strings Zheng Li
2009-04-06 9:20 ` Strings David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-06 10:07 ` Strings Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-06 11:03 ` Strings Zheng Li
2009-04-04 17:11 ` [Caml-list] Strings Kuba Ober
2009-04-04 17:26 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-05 20:54 ` Richard Jones
2009-04-05 23:40 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 18:24 ` Florian Hars
2009-04-03 20:34 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2009-04-04 10:20 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 9:14 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-04 9:26 ` Alp Mestan
2009-04-04 10:55 ` blue storm
2009-04-04 21:51 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-04 23:35 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-05 9:36 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 10:08 ` Alp Mestan
2009-04-05 21:41 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 21:40 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 2:55 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-05 4:22 ` Edgar Friendly
2009-04-05 7:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 6:57 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 7:11 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2009-04-04 10:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 21:39 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 7:14 ` Romain Beauxis
2009-04-05 9:34 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 21:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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