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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6587EBBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:04:38 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoICAJYPL0spzGghmWdsb2JhbACbUgEBAQEBCAsKBxOIK7EChC4Egno X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,431,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="52598167" Received: from smtp-out.malagasy.com ([41.204.104.33]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2009 15:03:53 +0100 Received: from camel.malagasy.com (camel.malagasy.com [41.204.104.34]) by smtp-out.malagasy.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F67444F2 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:30:27 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost (spamassassin.malagasy.com [41.204.104.47]) by camel.malagasy.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F82EFF2C for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:38 +0300 (EAT) X-Virus-Scanned: par antivirus.malagasy.com Received: from camel.malagasy.com ([41.204.104.34]) by localhost (spamassassin.malagasy.com [41.204.104.47]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XLxmDncRioAB for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:30:21 +0300 (EAT) Received: from pbmiha.malagasy.com (sysadmin-cnc.malagasy.com [41.204.104.9]) by camel.malagasy.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288F5FF2D for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:30 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=pbmiha.malagasy.com) by pbmiha.malagasy.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NMhLM-0001Et-1V for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:32 +0300 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:31 +0300 From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: OCaml is broken Message-ID: <20091221152631.35b3a2eb@pbmiha.malagasy.com> In-Reply-To: <200912201938.06729.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <4B2D2BC1.6020204@msu.edu> <200912200443.57698.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200912201938.06729.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Organization: Gulfsat X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 inria's:01 offerings:98 architecte:98 seems:03 stand-alone:05 standard:07 irrelevant:07 quite:08 ass:91 i'm:09 source:12 however:13 but:14 > Jon Harrop : > > Two cores is standard by > > now, I'm used to 8, next year 32 and so on. OCaml will only become > > more and more irrelevant. I hate to see that happening. > > Me too. The OCaml language will continue to kick ass for some time to > come but INRIA's implementation is no longer competitively performant > for many tasks. However, open source offerings are all quite dire, > particularly stand-alone ones. That seems dark... -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36