From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00377 for caml-red; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:32:37 +0200 (MET DST) 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 LAA27720 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:54:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp2-cm.mail.eni.net (smtp2a-cm.mail.eni.net [216.133.226.135]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9I9sSf27497 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:54:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com ([216.233.204.162]) by smtp2-cm.mail.eni.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA17210; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 02:54:26 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001018025332.033c37c0@walt> X-Sender: def6@walt X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 02:56:21 -0700 To: David Gurr , caml-list@inria.fr From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: single-precision floats, etc. Cc: gurr@mrs.mrs.med.ge.com In-Reply-To: <200010180117.SAA07872@mrs.mrs.med.ge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr >precision floats. Instead of adding single precision floats, I >wonder if I would rather replace boxed float with "boxed >multi-media datatype". I guess I'd really like to be able to do as much in Caml as possible. I could definitely write libraries in C for this, but it'd be really cool if Caml itself performed well enough that I didn't need to do that except in the most extreme cases. I'm doing some simple performance tests now relative to C and I'll post the results when I'm done. Chris