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From: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: vm in ocaml
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:47:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C17EADF8-29B1-4DDC-9B91-F300B78F26CA@gmail.com> (raw)

I have a translator from a Pascal-like trading language written in OCaml and I need the output to run as a DLL embedded in a trading platform. 

I'm thinking of generating bytecode and have the user pass the path to the bytecode file to the DLL during initialization. 

I don't want to load source code into my runtime since I want to do a lot of error checking on it to make sure the runtime experience is smooth. I don't want to ship ocamlc, etc. since I want to have a single executable. I'm not sure if embedding OCaml (and thus a license!) is needed to generate OCaml bytecode in my scenario, so the bytecode I'm talking about is my bytecode.

I understand that a bit of C will be required to wrap the OCaml runtime in a DLL. I would prefer to stay with OCaml for the whole project which prompts my question... 

Has anyone used OCaml to write a virtual machine?

How big is the OCaml runtime when bundled as a DLL or shared library?

	Thanks, Joel

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 15:47 UTC|newest]

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2010-02-03 15:47 Joel Reymont [this message]
2010-02-24 21:36 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang

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