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From: Michel Quercia <quercia@cal.enst.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: speed versus C
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:26:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99100710390400.06539@Montchapet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99100702163301.21475@ice>

William Chesters :
:   Incidentally, implementing a Vector in ocaml is slightly fiddly,
: because you have to keep valid pointers of the right type in even the
: unused part all the time.  This means o.a. delaying the creation of
: the underlying array until you have at least one element to put in it.

I disagree, better fill-in the vector with dummy values on creation (fe.
Val_unit), otherwise you may keep pointers to data that can not be reclaimed,
though semantically unreachable.

Gerd.Stolpmann :
: Caml is simply not good at arrays. I think it is not a good idea to adopt too
: much imperative style.

Please, let the user decide by himself if he wants to write imperative or
functionnal code. Depending on the particular problem he his solving, his own
preferences and sometimes also the weather of the day, he may choose one or the
other style or even mix both. Why not ?

--
Michel Quercia
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-10-07 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-03 21:35 Jan Brosius
1999-10-04 21:59 ` skaller
1999-10-05 23:22   ` chet
1999-10-06 10:22     ` skaller
1999-10-05 20:20 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-06 15:21   ` William Chesters
1999-10-06 22:49     ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-07 10:26       ` Michel Quercia [this message]
1999-10-07 10:46       ` William Chesters
1999-10-07 15:48         ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 19:21         ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08  0:26           ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 16:27             ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-10 20:48               ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 23:54                 ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 17:58                   ` William Chesters
1999-10-12 14:36                     ` Ocaml Machine (was Re: speed versus C) Alain Frisch
1999-10-12 15:32                       ` David Monniaux
1999-10-12 15:42                         ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 19:32                   ` speed versus C John Prevost
1999-10-11 20:50                 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-12 20:07                   ` skaller
1999-10-08  9:56           ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 15:25     ` Markus Mottl
1999-10-07  6:56   ` skaller
1999-10-07 12:37     ` Xavier Urbain
1999-10-07 22:18     ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08 19:15       ` skaller
1999-10-08 13:40   ` Anton Moscal
1999-10-06  7:58 ` Reply to: " Jens Olsson
1999-10-07 13:00 STARYNKEVITCH Basile
1999-10-08  6:57 Pascal Brisset
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.03.9910081713230.31666-100001@post.tepkom.ru>
1999-10-10  4:51 ` skaller
1999-10-11  9:08   ` Anton Moscal
1999-10-12 13:21 Damien Doligez
1999-10-12 20:42 ` skaller

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