From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA25559; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:01:56 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA25402 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:01:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6CD1sf26744 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:01:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g6CD1kSs023322; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:01:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp115.dyn1.pacific.net.au [61.8.1.115]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id XAA11931; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:01:44 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D2ED337.9050607@ozemail.com.au> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:01:43 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alessandro Baretta CC: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Array.resize ? References: <200207112228.SAA02692@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> <3D2E0F93.6060708@baretta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Alessandro Baretta wrote: > This is much different from either a C array or an O'Caml array. > Again, the issue is raised: do we need an OCaSTL? No, but we do need a richer library. Unlike Python, efficiency is important for Ocaml. A lot of work has gone into making Ocaml fast: right from the start, the decision to generate native code directly rather than going via C indicates that performance is treated very seriously. As it should be! Now recently, big arrays of various types have been added with unboxed elements. And I can guess that the problem of supporting arrays of unboxed elements of a more general class of types is being looked at. [Do I guess right?] -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners