From: Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interfacing with C question...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:16:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B94842.7090506@rftp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1169749795.5333.17.camel@rosella.wigram>
skaller wrote:
> ...
> It takes a bit of reading, thinking, and question asking
> to figure the gc out, but it is worth it: it really isn't that
> hard and IMHO the higher level macros just confuse things
> by obscuring the real constraints.
>
> [Once you know how it works .. *then* you can use the
> higher level macros because you then know what they're
> sugar for .. :]
While understanding what is going on under the covers *is* important,
there is a key reason for using the macros: as the documented and
recommended interface to the OCaml GC machinery, their use gives you a
much better chance that your code will easily / automagically survive
changes to the GC mechanism in the future... like if direct support of
multi- cores and processors ever becomes a reality. ;)
Robert Roessler
roessler@rftp.com
http://www.rftp.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-24 17:23 David Allsopp
2007-01-25 6:27 ` [Caml-list] " Remi Vanicat
2007-01-25 16:26 ` Hendrik Tews
2007-01-25 18:29 ` skaller
2007-01-26 0:16 ` Robert Roessler [this message]
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