Re: [Caml-list] Re: bytecode and native code at once

[mikel evins <mikel@evins.net>]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Paul Snively wrote:

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> Hi Mikel!

Hiya, Paul! What are you up to? (Interesting to see your name floating 
around the Ocaml lists).

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> On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:52 AM, mikel wrote:
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>> It's doable in principle. For example, the old MacScheme compiler 
>> used parameters to tune compilation on a per-function basis; low 
>> optimization settings resulted in generation of bytecode; high 
>> optimization settings resulted in generation of native code. Both 
>> types of function could coexist in the same runtime, with the 
>> different kinds of closures represented by different appliable types.
>>
>> I don't know what implications such a scheme might have for type 
>> safety in Ocaml.
>>
> Is there some reason that asmdynlink, which is part of the Caml 
> Development Kit, doesn't address this?

I don't know. All I was saying is that I knew nothing about it, because 
I had devoted no attention to the issue.

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> I also think that once MetaOCaml gets its native compiler done that it 
> will help answer the question as well, among others. I find MetaOCaml 
> very exciting!

Yeah, I heard the same thing from Adam Megacz. I suppose I oughta check 
it out.

--me

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