From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Can one implement greedy/inline data structures in ocaml?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5777F2.2000806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjhktqwi.fsf@frosties.localnet>
On 03/07/2012 09:41 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The task then needs pointers to each of the lists data
> structures creating cycles. Not good for ocaml. It also would waste
> memory for 2 pointers (per list).
Cycles are fine for ocaml, pointers are pretty cheap, and I think the
answer to your question is no - there's a regularity to values that's
required by the garbage collector, and what you seem to want is the
ability to inline nested structures without pointers, and OCaml's data
representation doesn't allow this, mainly because of the tag word needed
by the GC.
Beware premature optimization.
E.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 14:41 Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-07 15:00 ` Edgar Friendly [this message]
2012-03-07 16:32 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-07 16:58 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-03-08 5:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-08 8:51 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-03-09 7:50 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-09 9:21 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-03-09 13:29 ` Markus Weißmann
2012-03-10 12:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-09 15:43 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2012-03-10 12:49 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-03-08 13:31 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-03-09 7:29 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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