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From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: KC Sivaramakrishnan <sk826@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Use of ephemerons
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:23:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBHWU-NE2H=XQdKRD4PO07LExJT50CLHXN-GR3mSeNwM9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVN0VvQCj8uNmHt4Q-5+oOFEr8PPYuh5zcr03=TX6Ac0muL-w@mail.gmail.com>

One notable use of ephemerons within a "compiler fork" is their use in
the runtime of Jacques-Henri Jourdan's statistical memory profiler:

paper: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01406809/document
code: https://github.com/jhjourdan/ocaml/blob/memprof/byterun/memprof.c

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:12 PM, KC Sivaramakrishnan <sk826@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking to find out the extent of the use of ephemerons in the wild. A
> quick search for "Ephemerons.set_key" on github led me to a single use in an
> external library [1], while other uses seem to be wrappers, unit tests or
> compiler forks. Are there other uses of ephemerons in tools or libraries
> which I am missing?
>
> Kind Regards
> KC
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/dune-universe/dune-universe/blob/f49e4812532abee72d3b858ee0aeb7babb933cb6/packages/sexplib0.v0.11.0/sexp_conv.ml#L118

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-12 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12 15:12 KC Sivaramakrishnan
2018-04-12 15:23 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]
2018-04-12 15:39   ` KC Sivaramakrishnan

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