From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How much optimized is the 'a option type ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:09:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120100943.GH26447@frosties> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_800qH1ZYj1gy7_xw3OOpR_As5wtJZTy80JpJZANCWaZaKOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:36:22AM -0500, Markus Mottl wrote:
> Others have already answered about memory representation, but there is
> one thing about allocations that many OCaml programmers may not yet be
> aware of and that can make a noticeable performance difference when
> used wisely: the OCaml compiler will inspect your code and, under the
> right conditions, batch together allocations. E.g. consider this
> function (references are records, btw.):
>
> let f n =
> let x = ref (ref (Some (Some n))) in
> [(x, n); (x, n)]
>
> One might naively assume that this would lead to seven or so
> allocations. But if you inspect the assembly, you'll see only one
> allocation followed by mere initialization assignments.
Cool. Didn't know that. Thanks for whoever implemented that.
MfG
Goswin
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 7:35 Damien Guichard
2014-01-17 7:55 ` David House
2014-01-17 8:16 ` Julien Blond
2014-01-17 8:40 ` David House
2014-01-17 9:10 ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-01-17 9:22 ` Simon Cruanes
2014-01-17 17:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-01-18 1:35 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-19 6:19 ` oleg
2014-01-21 1:51 ` Francois Berenger
2014-01-18 1:01 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-24 10:06 ` Alain Frisch
2014-01-24 10:16 ` Alain Frisch
2014-01-24 13:32 ` Yaron Minsky
[not found] ` <CAK=fH+jfi=GsMYBZzmuo=V5UAWimyxiiamY2+DkLg6F0i8XHGw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-17 9:11 ` David House
2014-01-17 11:23 ` Jonathan Kimmitt
2014-01-17 13:46 ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2014-01-17 13:56 ` Frédéric Bour
2014-01-17 14:02 ` Yaron Minsky
2014-01-17 14:09 ` Simon Cruanes
2014-01-17 22:52 ` Yaron Minsky
2014-01-18 1:37 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-17 14:24 ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-01-17 22:29 ` Yaron Minsky
2014-01-18 1:27 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-18 1:18 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-20 10:16 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-20 11:23 ` Jonathan Kimmitt
2014-01-21 2:05 ` Francois Berenger
2014-01-22 21:22 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-22 21:26 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-23 9:29 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-23 23:20 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-23 23:28 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-01-24 8:22 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-24 8:34 ` Andreas Rossberg
2014-01-24 16:56 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-27 15:29 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-27 16:18 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-01-29 7:56 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-29 8:32 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-29 16:11 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-01-30 18:43 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-02-01 15:58 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-30 21:31 ` Jon Harrop
2014-01-30 21:43 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-01-31 8:26 ` Jon Harrop
2014-02-01 15:40 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-27 10:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-01-17 14:36 ` Markus Mottl
2014-01-17 15:49 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-01-17 16:22 ` Markus Mottl
2014-01-20 10:09 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
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