Re: [Caml-list] Announce: ocaml-vdom (pre-release)

[SP <sp@orbitalfox.com>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 05:31:00PM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote:
>I think FRP and SAC are pretty different in their roles here. Really,
>SAC is just a system for optimizing a unidirectional computation ---
> [..]
>val view : Model.t Incr.t -> Vdom.t Incr.t
>
>which is really just an incremental version of an ordinary function.
>You don't have to think about anything signal-like when you consider
> [..]
>My somehat biased view is that SAC addresses performance, [..] whereas
>FRP doesn't address a problem which is similarly central.  And the
>ability to express
>time-dependent computations (which FRP provides) adds lots of other
>problems (in particular, monadic FRP is plagued by space leaks.)
>[..]
>Incremental adds some conceptual weight (less, I claim, than
>traditional FRP libraries), but it also solves a real problem.


Would be nice to read an article on these findings & comparison of the
two concepts and their techniques.

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    SP