Re: [Caml-list] Compilation semantics for static garbage collection

[Kenneth Adam Miller <kennethadammiller@gmail.com>]

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Thanks to all! I appreciate the enlightenment. I think I did a poor job on
my word selection, a regular from me.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may interested in the Mezzo programming language, a research
> language developed with the idea of having a finer-grained type-level
> control of mutable memory.
>   http://protz.github.io/mezzo/
>
> Many of the ideas that are informal in Rust are formally explicited in
> Mezzo. The language is less ambitious than Rust in terms of feature
> coverage (and thus less practical for everyday programming), but comes
> with a precise semantics (which Rust lacks for now) and soundness
> proof. It is a fairly interesting design, which can be presented as
> aiming to turn the current research on separation logic into a
> relatively usable programming language design.
>
> For a lively discussion of some of Mezzo design choices, what worked
> and what did not work so well, see
>   "A few lessons from the Mezzo project",
>   François Pottier, Jonathan Protzenko, 2015
>
> http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/publis/fpottier-protzenko-lessons-mezzo.pdf
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller
> <kennethadammiller@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking that while rust is new, some of what it is pioneering is
> > really interesting, especially with the way it deals with ownership
> being a
> > type. Rust doesn't have a GC, yet it rules out leakage and remains fast.
> It
> > also manages concurrency safety very well.
> >
> > The stipulations put on types in the ocaml language are pretty strict,
> and
> > the GC is transparent to the user. What is the possibility that there
> could
> > ever be a version of ocaml that makes use of something like ownership or
> > some typing mechanism to determine more at compile time, to facilitate
> the
> > removal or reduction of the GC?
>

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