From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q2DGtq52031111 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:55:52 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAH57X09QRFuw/2dsb2JhbABDtWOBB4IJAQEFOj8QCxgcEhQoIROIDrxQhTmKSWMElU+JSoZagmU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,577,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="149142088" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 13 Mar 2012 17:55:47 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S7V0k-0007Cr-Tf; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:55:46 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:55:46 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: "forum@x9c.fr" Cc: caml users Message-ID: <20120313165546.GB23811@annexia.org> References: <4F5A41C6.10505@inria.fr> <051FF700-7AB2-43CE-A917-53461BB3EEE6@x9c.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <051FF700-7AB2-43CE-A917-53461BB3EEE6@x9c.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A js_of_ocaml equivalent for the JVM? 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