Re: [Caml-list] Re: How to read different ints from a Bigarray?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I still can reuse a lot of this. Esspecially the syntax extension
>> seems like a good idea. Maybe reduced to bytes instead of bits
>> though. I don't intend to use such fine grained structures to need bit
>> access.
>
> Take a close look at bitstring.  In all the cases where it can
> *statically* determine that accesses are on byte or larger boundaries,
> it does *not* do any bitfiddling but uses the most efficient, direct C
> calls possible.
>
> We really did spend a lot of time optimizing the bitmatch case.
>
> Rich.

But C calls are still 33% slower than direct access in ocaml (if one
doesn't use the polymorphic functions).

What would be great would be to use whatever Bigarray uses to get the
compiler to emit direct access to the data instead of C calls. Time to
hit the source.

MfG
        Goswin