From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7406FBBAF for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:03:27 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnoHAIn010nZSMDqZGdsb2JhbACBUpMmgSEaCwMHBw8FsymEDwY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,431,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="27051187" Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Apr 2009 09:03:27 +0200 Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF385F9FD8BE; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:03:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [78.43.226.218] (helo=frosties.localdomain) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.110 #277) id 1LqMO6-0000BU-00; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:03:26 +0200 Received: from mrvn by frosties.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LqMO5-0004kR-Sx; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:03:26 +0200 From: Goswin von Brederlow To: Edgar Friendly Cc: Jon Harrop , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings References: <200904031256.33357.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <87ocvc6qa1.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <200904050355.31170.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <49D831F6.5060308@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:03:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49D831F6.5060308@gmail.com> (Edgar Friendly's message of "Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:22:14 -0500") Message-ID: <87skknfupu.fsf@frosties.localdomain> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: goswin-v-b@web.de X-Sender: goswin-v-b@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+nOGKr6gRo/t8hhxt8jceIC8E4rp5p4867mMNM RRoPoA7UJZ5bR2nE6PdFpnUyt+xA0LVAmp+41rXM9Pd0m1wynn 1+b67A5sE= X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ugliness:01 recompile:01 edgar:98 2009:98 mfg:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 int:01 writes:01 strings:01 strings:01 string:02 Edgar Friendly writes: > Jon Harrop wrote: >> On Saturday 04 April 2009 22:51:50 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> The beauty of ocaml strings is that they are really compact. An ocaml >>> string on 32bit is 5-8 bytes longer than the contained string and 9-16 >>> bytes on 64bit. >> >> The ugliness is that 16Mb limit. I assume those limits have been removed in >> batteries?! >> > Our implementation of ropes (well, really Mauricio Fernandez's) has a > limit of ~700MB in 32-bit and 220GB in 64-bit. Users that need more > than that will have to recompile batteries with a larger > 'Rope.max-height' constant. > > E. # Sys.max_string_length;; - : int = 144115188075855863 Why is the limit for rRope 220GB in 64bit? MfG Goswin