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From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:45:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d13dcfc0908180845m458f06d4hb361c930d21727c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090818152116.GA18840@annexia.org>

Hello,

2009/8/18 Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>:
> It's relatively low-level when you need it to be, and it wouldn't be
> too much work to separate out the runtime and reimplement it on top of
> baremetal.

I've done part of this in the past (KOS is not bare metal but a kernel
nonetheless):
 http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/01/cf207671ce0efc6bf58f710b230e06e2.en.html

>  It would also be interesting to see if the supposed
> massive overheads of garbage collection are in reality better than
> bloating every structure with an additional reference count field.

I share the same feeling.

There were experiments of implementing kernel functionalities like TCP
stack in ML-like languages, e.g. "A Structured TCP in Standard ML
(1994)" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.35.8383)
or "A Network Protocol Stack in Standard ML"
(http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.8546)

Yours,
d.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-18 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11 21:50 Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know) Yaron Minsky
2009-08-11 21:58 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-08-16 16:57 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Beauxis
2009-08-16 18:56   ` Yaron Minsky
2009-08-16 23:29     ` Andrej Bauer
2009-08-17 19:59     ` Romain Beauxis
2009-08-17 20:02       ` Alexy Khrabrov
2009-08-17 20:26         ` Romain Beauxis
2009-08-17 20:49           ` Kip Macy
2009-08-17 21:30           ` Matthew Macy
2009-08-17 22:44             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-08-17 23:22               ` Matthew Macy
2009-08-17 23:33                 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-08-18 10:59                   ` Florian Hars
2009-08-18 11:07                     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-08-18 15:21                       ` OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring) Richard Jones
2009-08-18 15:45                         ` David MENTRE [this message]
2009-08-18 15:56                         ` Philippe Strauss
2009-08-19 12:43                         ` OCaml and kernels Alexander Danilov
2009-08-19 16:31                           ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2009-08-19 19:31                             ` Alain Frisch
2009-08-19  6:46                       ` [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know) Florian Hars
2009-08-18 10:21               ` Richard Jones

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