From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 16B03BC37 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:45:10 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArwAAOOD9krUnwdki2dsb2JhbACCHIJVlwMBAQEKCwoHEQatKo8ugTKCOFQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,704,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="37742970" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 08 Nov 2009 17:45:09 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgFAB+E9krUnw4U/2dsb2JhbACCHIJVxG6PLoEygjhUBA Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.20]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2009 16:45:09 +0000 Received: from [87.115.63.247] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1N7At2-0000mw-OL for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:45:08 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unboxed float tuples Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:46:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <91a3da520911080801w6637b652w94a717a830b1c5bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <91a3da520911080801w6637b652w94a717a830b1c5bd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911081646.09963.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: df93886f5cc3359cee94a6e0bd51080b X-Spam: no; 0.00; unboxed:01 vectors:01 structs:01 vectors:01 structs:01 2009:98 frog:98 imho:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 tuples:01 tuples:01 handles:03 float:03 daniel:04 On Sunday 08 November 2009 16:01:48 Daniel B=C3=BCnzli wrote: > Using tuples (vs records) to handles points and vectors is > syntactically more lightweight (IMHO). If you want to handle structs and vectors then you probably want structs=20 (value types) and not boxed representations like tuples and records anyway. =2D-=20 Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e