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 HAA08428; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:09:07 +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 HAA08444 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:09:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from will.iki.fi (will.iki.fi [217.169.64.20]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i89595f8010523 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:09:05 +0200 Received: from [10.0.20.56] (fa-3-0-0.fw.exomi.com [217.169.64.99]) by will.iki.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F5E15F; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:09:05 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <413FE56A.1050307@exomi.com> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:08:58 +0300 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040828) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Gripes with array References: <200409090310.29295.jon@jdh30.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <200409090310.29295.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413FE571.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 pointers:01 byterun:01 mlvalues:01 arrays:01 anyhow:01 -bit:01 garbage:01 complexity:02 collector:02 wrote:03 array:04 suspect:05 probably:05 i'd:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Jon Harrop wrote: >Does anyone have any pointers to information about the origin of the size >limit for arrays? I assume it is something to do with the garbage collector >using a fixed-size tag instead of a variable-size one but I'd be interested >in the details. > > You're correct, see byterun/mlvalues.h for details. I suspect variable-length tags would probably increase complexity and decrease performance considerably...and personally I hope we'll all be migrating to 64-bit architectures soon, anyhow. ------------------- 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