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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B654FBC37 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AskBANe59krUnwcki2dsb2JhbACCHYJVlwUBAQEKCwoHEQatTo8hgTKCOFQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,704,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="36384587" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 08 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtQGANe59kpUXeby/2dsb2JhbACCHYJVxROPIYEygjhUBA Received: from relay01.plus.net ([84.93.230.242]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2009 20:35:03 +0000 Received: from [87.115.63.247] (helo=leper.local) by relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1N7ETX-0004Nn-Eq for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:35:03 +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 20:36:04 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <91a3da520911080801w6637b652w94a717a830b1c5bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911082036.05048.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 3c39727ef8d1d0e5701b8e6470335ec8 X-Spam: no; 0.00; unboxed:01 compiler:01 bindings:01 run-time:01 2009:98 endure:98 frog:98 garbage:01 wrote:01 rewrite:01 caml-list:01 tuples:01 tuples:01 monomorphic:01 optimization:03 On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:39:03 Brian Hurt wrote: > Fixing this would require a major rearchitecting and rewrite of not only > the compiler, but also the garbage collector, the run time, and all the C > bindings that have been written. If you're willing to endure a whole program optimization pass then you can avoid having to touch the GC and run-time by monomorphizing the code, e.g. converting all tuples into monomorphic record types. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e