From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: "forum@x9c.fr" <forum@x9c.fr>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A js_of_ocaml equivalent for the JVM?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:55:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313165546.GB23811@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <051FF700-7AB2-43CE-A917-53461BB3EEE6@x9c.fr>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:25PM +0100, forum@x9c.fr wrote:
> Well, no real obstacle as OCaml-Java showed.
> However, OCaml-Java 1.x is still a bare proof of concept due to both
> poor design choices and JVM limitations. But then came Java 1.7 and
> some limitations were removed (e. g. a garbage collector better suited
> to functional languages, and an implementation of method handles).
> OCaml-Java has been largely rewritten and now exhibit acceptable
> performances.
I tried out ocamljava (1.x) and really liked it. One thing that
stopped me from using it was the fact that it 'emulates' a 32 bit
OCaml environment, so we get all sorts of limits on strings and
arrays. Will the new version 'emulate' 64 bit instead?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-09 17:12 Philippe Veber
2012-03-09 17:45 ` Johan Grande
2012-03-09 18:05 ` forum
2012-03-12 16:05 ` Philippe Veber
2012-03-13 16:55 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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