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 PAA21951; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:29:45 +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 PAA22172 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:29:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alex.baretta.com ([213.255.109.130]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i68DTgSH024548 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:29:43 +0200 Received: from baretta.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alex.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5B82D5ADB; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:30:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40ED4C7E.80202@baretta.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:30:38 +0200 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net, Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Does Caml have slow arithmetics ? References: <20040707091308.GA26172@bourg.inria.fr> <20040707145803.GB27498@yquem.inria.fr> <1089227778.29648.81.camel@pelican.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1089227778.29648.81.camel@pelican.wigram> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40ED4C46.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 caml-list:01 arithmetics:01 optimise:01 caml:01 alex:01 alex:01 wrote:03 btw:03 efficient:05 slow:05 generated:08 generated:08 suggests:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk skaller wrote: > BTW: there is another answer to the question Xavier asked: > > Q: why did you write the code that way ..? > A: I didn't, it was generated.. > > which suggests sometimes there is a reason to optimise > 'silly' looking code. > We use a lot of generated code, but we try to preoptimize it to "cute-looking", if not really efficient. Alex ------------------- 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