From: jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml efficiency
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:25:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g01lrrml.fsf@marant.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424140512.A17777@pauillac.inria.fr> (Xavier Leroy's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:05:12 +0200")
Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr> writes:
> One example is software components that take a low-level view of the
> memory (as an untyped collection of bytes or words accessed via
> addresses): memory managers, garbage collectors, device drivers, and
> to some extent virtual machine interpreters.
...
> Caml/C conversions on other data types can be more expensive, though.
> Still, as long as the C function does some real work (e.g. 1000 cycles
> of computation), the overhead of calling it from Caml should be
> negligible.
Many thanks for all those accurate explainations.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-24 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-20 10:03 Jérôme Marant
2002-04-20 14:51 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-04-20 15:38 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-04-22 19:48 ` Warp
2002-04-23 17:29 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-04-24 12:05 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-04-24 16:25 ` Jérôme Marant [this message]
2002-04-25 16:17 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2003-02-17 18:03 Vincent Barichard
2003-02-18 21:25 ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2003-02-18 21:32 ` Matt Gushee
2003-02-19 0:57 ` Matt Gushee
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