From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA04667; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:19:57 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA04660 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:19:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from comtv.ru (comtv.ru [217.10.32.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAGNJq101740 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:19:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.0.66.9] ([10.0.66.9] verified) by comtv.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0) with ESMTP-TLS id 5528336; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:19:49 +0300 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:16:57 +0300 (MSK) From: malc X-X-Sender: malc@home.oyster.ru To: Oleg cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] native code toplevel In-Reply-To: <200211161432.gAGEWo124537@nez-perce.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > I found the same question in the archives, but with no answers: why isn't > there a native code toplevel? Sometimes I need high performance and > interactivity (CMUCL can do it, why not O'Caml?) Let's see. We have following obstacles: a) Ocaml relies on external tools to generate native code (assembler, linker) b) Ocaml has no way to dynamically load .cmx or .cmxa And here is a real show stoper - no way to pick suitable name for the executable, i mean, ocaml - toplevel, ocamlc - compiler, ocamlopt - "optimizing" compiler. Quite simply, there is no space for such a beast. -- mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners