From: John Prevost <jmp@arsdigita.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] bigarrays and toplevel on Win32?
Date: 05 Mar 2001 16:28:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pufvoqro.fsf@elbereth.pgh.arsdigita.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010305175715.B16895@pauillac.inria.fr>
>>>>> "xl" == Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:
xl> The party line on unsafe array accesses is unclear: on the one
xl> hand, we do not want to encourage their use, as it can break
xl> type safety and dramatically reduce the safety of the
xl> programs; on the other hand, they are handy when benchmarking
xl> against C or Fortran :-)
Think of it less as an "unsafe array access" and more of "license to
turn a given set of exceptions into core dumps in exchange for
efficiency." ;)
John.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-07 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-05 7:43 Chris Hecker
2001-03-05 16:57 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-03-05 17:37 ` Chris Hecker
2001-03-06 17:18 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-05 20:52 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-03-05 21:28 ` John Prevost [this message]
2001-03-07 16:00 ` Dan Grossman
2001-03-07 21:04 ` John Prevost
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