From: "Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
To: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml-Java project: 1.0 release
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:37:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d3ec8300805262337o6cb390f0ma986212e065132d6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805270706.20939.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008 06:46:23 forum@x9c.fr wrote:
>> This post announces the 1.0 release of the OCaml-Java project.
>> The goal of the OCaml-Java project is to allow seamless integration of
>> OCaml and Java.
>> Home page: http://ocamljava.x9c.fr
>>
>> This version features a new source distribution which includes the
>> standard distribution
>> of Objective Caml 3.10.2, and all the libraries needed to build the
>> whole OCaml-Java project.
>> URL: http://ocamljava.x9c.fr/downloads.html
>>
>> Main changes since beta:
>> - source distribution
>> - support for OCaml 3.10.2
>> - support for camlp4
>> - better handling of Java errors
>> - ocamllex, ocamldoc, and ocamldep added to the binary distribution
>> - bug fixes
>>
>> I am still looking for testers, particularly concerning the source
>> distribution.
>> So far, this distribution has been tested on two platforms: MacOS X.5
>> (32-bit),
>> and Fedora 8 (64-bit). I will be thankful to developers reporting
>> success or
>> failure on other platforms.
>
> I would love to test this but I do have some questions:
>
> 1. Do threads run in parallel, i.e. does it leverage the concurrent GC in the
> JVM?
>
> 2. What is the performance like?
>
> 3. Is anyone working on Debian packages for OCamlJava?
>
> 4. Are tail calls fully implemented and, if not, when exactly do they work?
One cannot fully implement tail calls on the JVM: there's no such
thing as a goto or a tail call instruction.
Tail recursion can usually be done for cheap. The general requires
some expensive machinery (usually trampolines)
Till
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 5:46 forum
2008-05-27 6:06 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-05-27 6:37 ` Till Varoquaux [this message]
2008-05-27 7:01 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-27 7:57 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 7:26 ` forum
2008-05-27 8:36 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 17:59 ` Florian Weimer
2008-05-27 18:57 ` forum
2008-05-27 7:23 ` forum
2008-05-27 9:12 ` Richard Jones
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