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From: Pierre Chambart <pierre.chambart@laposte.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiled code that uses the stack when it can.
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:25:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121105232503.0e369242@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20D75025-C0A1-43A0-89BE-30AD5ED04545@cap-lore.com>

Le Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:21:13 -0800,
Norman Hardy <norm@cap-lore.com> a écrit :

> Is there a way to get ocamlopt to leave the C sources behind?
> Does ocamlopt ever use the stack to call functions that it compiled?
> Does anyone know of compilers that use the stack when they can but
> uses the heap when it must? Is there literature on this?
> This slide set is very useful but seems to suggest that internal
> functions representations are treated uniformly.
> http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/talks/compilation-agay.pdf
> 
> I am thinking about static code analysis to determine two or perhaps
> three ways free variables in a function might be handled. It is hard
> enough that I would like to see if it has been done before.

This was studied quite extensively by Bruno Blanchet in his thesis:
http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/publications/BlanchetPhd00.html
-- 
Pierre

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-05 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05 19:21 Norman Hardy
2012-11-05 19:33 ` AW: " Gerd Stolpmann
2012-11-05 22:25 ` Pierre Chambart [this message]

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