From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA03312; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:04:05 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03326 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:04:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from chinon (aboukir-101-1-17-jmarant.adsl.nerim.net [62.212.105.6]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3KA43115440 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:04:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from jerome by chinon with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16yrio-0000FP-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:03:58 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Ocaml efficiency From: jmarant@free.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:03:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87k7r2r8j5.fsf@marant.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, Some people are sometimes writing or thinking about writing applications in OCaml without knowing it OCaml is suitable for the kind of applications they're writing. So my question is for what kind of applications isn't OCaml suitable for and better written in a lower lever language? What is the real cost (in CPU) of interfaces to C libraries since some processing have to be performed in order to convert lower level types to Caml types? Thanks. Regards, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners