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From: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
To: David Brown <caml-list2@davidb.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] compiler bug?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 22:20:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446CD72B.6040700@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060518200732.GA31619@old.davidb.org>

David Brown wrote:
> For something like a compiler, worse case behavior is very important.

All the decent programming languages I'm using nowadays have a type
system whose worse case complexity is exponential in the size of the
source. No compiler can be better than exponential. Do you think I
should stop using these languages?

-- Alain


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-17 23:14 Dan Koppel
2006-05-17 23:33 ` [Caml-list] " John Carr
2006-05-18 17:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-18 17:34   ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 17:46     ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-18 19:31       ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 20:07         ` David Brown
2006-05-18 20:15           ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 20:20           ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2006-05-18 18:19     ` skaller
2006-05-18 18:53       ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-19  1:47         ` skaller
2006-05-19  2:17           ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-19  3:11             ` skaller
2006-05-19 16:48           ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-19 19:10             ` skaller
2012-08-06 10:04 [Caml-list] Compiler bug? Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 10:11 ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 10:20   ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 10:34     ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 11:03       ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 11:32         ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 12:16           ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-07  1:35           ` Cedric Cellier
2012-08-08 16:03           ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-08 18:03             ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-08 18:22               ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2012-08-08 18:40                 ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-08 19:29                   ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-08-08 23:34                 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-08-09  0:53                 ` Francois Berenger

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