From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd33905031619484825e276@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503161927350.30293@shell2.speakeasy.net>
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:35:17 -0800 (PST), brogoff
<brogoff@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Anyways, long lists do occur, and Stack_overflow at the customer site sucketh
> bigtime.
I completely agree. As someone who makes extensive use of OCaml in a
business setting, the fact that the standard libraries throw
exceptions on large data structures is a real pain. It's a violation
of the principle of least surprise, and I've run into it in practice
quite a few times. Our solution was to just rewrite the list module
with tail-recursive versions. We're happy to make the performance
tradeoff. If we really want things to be fast, List.map is no good
anyway, due to the lack of inlining of the function parameter.
I do think that it would be a great thing if the tail-recursive list
functions were moved into the standard library.
Yaron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-17 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 1:29 Karl Zilles
2005-03-15 8:32 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-15 8:45 ` Michael Vanier
2005-03-15 8:59 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-15 20:17 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 20:36 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-15 21:03 ` padiolea
2005-03-15 21:40 ` William D.Neumann
2005-03-15 22:12 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 23:07 ` William D.Neumann
2005-03-15 23:39 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-15 23:54 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-16 0:03 ` Christopher Dutchyn
2005-03-16 0:18 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 1:05 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 2:55 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 11:23 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-16 23:41 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 13:33 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 23:59 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 3:01 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-16 13:10 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 13:41 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-16 14:14 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-17 0:27 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 17:43 ` brogoff
2005-03-16 19:51 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 3:35 ` brogoff
2005-03-17 3:48 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2005-03-17 10:16 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 10:47 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 18:06 ` brogoff
2005-03-17 19:15 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-18 17:46 ` brogoff
2005-03-18 18:44 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-17 21:31 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 9:45 ` Christian Szegedy
2005-03-17 10:31 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 11:11 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-03-17 11:31 ` tail-recursion vs. no tail-recursion in list functions sebastian.egner
2005-03-17 21:41 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-18 0:04 ` David Brown
2005-03-18 0:06 ` Karl Zilles
2005-03-18 1:13 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-17 0:21 ` [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 1:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-17 17:32 ` Jason Hickey
2005-03-17 19:06 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-17 0:14 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 1:38 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-31 11:42 ` Paul Argentoff
2005-03-31 11:41 ` Paul Argentoff
2005-03-15 20:06 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 9:25 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-15 10:08 ` YANG Shouxun
2005-03-15 20:02 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 22:33 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-16 1:33 ` YANG Shouxun
2005-03-15 10:34 ` padiolea
2005-03-15 10:52 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-03-15 14:12 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-15 15:25 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-03-15 18:05 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-15 18:26 ` Kip Macy
2005-03-16 0:32 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 11:26 ` David Fox
2005-03-15 18:55 ` Christopher A. Watford
2005-03-15 19:56 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-16 0:35 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 0:34 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-18 6:04 Harrison, John R
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