From: Jerome Vouillon <Jerome.Vouillon@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Compiling to Javascript
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:04:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124090446.GA15560@pps.jussieu.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CECBCCD.4000609@frisch.fr>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Alain Frisch wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 8:46 PM, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> >Actually, Facebook has a compiler that transforms PHP source code into C++ [1],
> >and they claim a 50% reduction in CPU usage.
>
> I haven't looked into this project, but I've a hard time believing
> this is a better approach than compiling PHP to Javascript. The
> translation would probably produce quite idiomatic Javascript code
> on which modern
> interpreters do an amazing job (and they keep improving).
I'm not so sure about that. For instance, PHP has complex implicit
conversion rules which are not the same as Javascript rules. These
would have to be made explicit, at a high cost. The calling
convention is likely to be different too.
On the other hand, OCaml compiles well to Javascript. We experience
performances comparable to those of the bytecode interpreter with
Js_of_ocaml, our compiler ( http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ ).
(I should really make an official release soon...)
-- Jerome
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-16 14:52 OCamlJit 2.0 Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-16 17:07 ` [Caml-list] " bluestorm
2010-11-16 17:32 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-17 8:44 ` Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0) Alain Frisch
2010-11-17 10:46 ` Satoshi Ogasawara
2010-11-17 11:38 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-11-17 22:57 ` [Caml-list] Native toplevel? Wojciech Daniel Meyer
2010-11-18 16:49 ` [Caml-list] Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0) Ashish Agarwal
2010-11-19 18:09 ` David MENTRE
2010-11-19 18:24 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2010-11-19 18:30 ` Ashish Agarwal
2010-11-19 18:42 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-20 11:49 ` Jon Harrop
2010-11-18 18:19 ` Benedikt Meurer
[not found] ` <2025993285.616104.1290144569061.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>
2010-11-19 10:02 ` [Caml-list] Re: Native toplevel? Fabrice Le Fessant
2010-11-19 19:16 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-19 18:43 ` [Caml-list] OCamlJit 2.0 Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-19 19:10 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-20 15:59 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-19 19:46 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-11-19 20:20 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-20 15:19 ` [Was: OCamlJit 2.0] Vincent Balat
2010-11-20 15:42 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-20 16:10 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-20 16:25 ` Benedikt Meurer
2010-11-20 17:35 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-20 17:08 ` Jon Harrop
2010-11-20 17:37 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-20 17:48 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-11-20 18:51 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2010-11-20 18:05 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2010-11-20 17:15 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-11-23 2:09 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-11-24 7:20 ` [Caml-list] OCamlJit 2.0 Alain Frisch
2010-11-24 7:59 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-11-24 9:04 ` Jerome Vouillon [this message]
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