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=0.1 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 C8BD9BC37 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 06:31:15 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0CAO1GB0rUnwckdWdsb2JhbACCH5RwAQwKCQkRBLUfg34F X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,326,1238968800"; d="scan'208";a="39726990" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 11 May 2009 06:31:15 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlsFAB5HB0rUnw6T/2dsb2JhbACCH8pNg34F Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.147]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 11 May 2009 05:31:14 +0100 Received: from [87.112.229.53] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1M3NAY-0004PK-Ls for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 11 May 2009 05:31:14 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Ocamlopt x86-32 and SSE2 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 06:38:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <90823c940904281236x61204451nac149ee15b5df73a@mail.gmail.com> <87eiuxuslu.fsf@pat35-1-82-229-60-210.fbx.proxad.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905110638.28283.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 94c76d9830ea4646ebb164ec69bed973 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocamlopt:01 ocamlopt:01 ocaml:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 slower:02 native:03 mean:08 versions:11 ltd:87 machines:12 machines:12 think:13 On Monday 11 May 2009 04:43:21 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > As far as I know, one is using ocamlopt to improve performance. > > I can't think of any case where one would need native code running on > > pre-SS2 machines which are so outdated performance-wise. > > You mean we should make slow machines even slower? Old machines can still run old versions of OCaml at full speed. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e