From: "Yuanchen Zhu" <yzhu@fas.harvard.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comparison of OCaml and MLton for numerics
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:24:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5195a210705310224l3e92e17m6925a4a19a446c61@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705311008.16662.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
> > > As I can autogenerate my code, I would much rather the OCaml developers
> > > concentrated on things that I cannot get around, like the lack of a
> > > 32-bit float storage type and a more efficient internal representation of
> > > complex numbers.
> >
> > That sounds very interesting. Could you elaborate or give an example?
>
> Complex numbers are unboxed in OCaml. If they were equivalent to a C struct
> then performance would be much better.
>
> OCaml only handles 64-bit floats because there is no point in computing with
> 32-bit floats any more. However, there is point in storing 32-bit floats as,
> when you have a lot of them, your program uses half as much heap and is twice
> as cache coherent. My ray tracer is an excellent example of a program that
> can benefit from this.
>
Umm sorry. I mean the autogeneration part.
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 5:50 Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 6:17 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 6:32 ` skaller
2007-05-31 7:31 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 9:08 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 9:22 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-05-31 10:27 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 21:30 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 1:22 ` skaller
2007-06-01 1:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 2:21 ` skaller
2007-06-01 2:49 ` Erick Tryzelaar
2007-06-01 3:05 ` skaller
2007-06-01 5:30 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 5:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 6:36 ` Yuanchen Zhu
2007-06-01 8:09 ` skaller
2007-06-01 8:53 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 8:59 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 9:22 ` Stephan Tolksdorf
2007-06-01 9:49 ` Richard Jones
2007-06-01 9:32 ` Stephan Tolksdorf
2007-06-01 10:02 ` skaller
2007-06-01 11:29 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-06-01 11:43 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 11:58 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 13:49 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 14:18 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-06-01 14:43 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 14:57 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 15:40 ` Alain Frisch
2007-06-01 15:58 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 16:25 ` Markus Mottl
2007-06-01 16:47 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 23:26 ` skaller
2007-06-01 23:49 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-02 3:26 ` skaller
2007-06-01 12:40 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-06-01 13:56 ` Julien Signoles
2007-06-01 11:49 ` David MENTRE
2007-06-01 14:41 ` skaller
2007-06-01 16:52 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 23:33 ` skaller
2007-06-01 16:14 ` Markus Mottl
2007-06-01 16:46 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-01 17:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-04 14:03 ` Mike Furr
2007-06-04 14:39 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-04 15:33 ` Mike Furr
2007-06-04 18:08 ` skaller
[not found] ` <9d3ec8300706041518y115d22bdsa120d4010261d841@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-04 22:19 ` Fwd: " Till Varoquaux
2007-06-04 23:40 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-05 2:24 ` skaller
2007-06-04 22:44 ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-06-05 1:42 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-05 10:30 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-10 12:10 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-10 12:58 ` skaller
2007-06-01 14:15 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-06-01 14:37 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-01 14:39 ` Eric Cooper
2007-05-31 9:24 ` Yuanchen Zhu [this message]
2007-05-31 10:25 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-31 10:30 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 12:12 ` skaller
2007-05-31 7:11 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-31 15:15 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-05-31 15:23 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-31 15:35 ` Christophe Raffalli
[not found] ` <604682010705310923o5a1ee0eiee5ae697da9d3c60@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-31 20:14 ` Stephen Weeks
2007-05-31 15:16 ` Christophe Raffalli
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