From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Fernando Alegre <fernando@mail.alemor.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiler feature - useful or not?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:47:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711151940520.27414@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071115202849.GB6523@gato.physics.und.nodak.edu>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Fernando Alegre wrote:
>
> The main problem I have with abstract types is that they are heavyweight
> since they need to be defined inside modules. In that particular, the
> proposed private types are also heavyweight.
I don't see modules as being that heavyweight. Absent functors, they're
just namespaces. And Ocaml's cross-module inlining eliminates even most
of that overhead- identity conversions are generally inlined and become
no-ops. Even with functors, the overhead is small, approximately that of
calling a virtual function in C++ or Java.
Just my $0.02.
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 23:41 Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 0:08 ` [Caml-list] " Yaron Minsky
2007-11-14 0:21 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-14 7:58 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 12:37 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-14 13:56 ` Virgile Prevosto
2007-11-14 14:35 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 16:38 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-14 18:43 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 19:19 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 6:29 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-15 13:26 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-15 17:29 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 20:28 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 0:47 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2007-11-15 22:37 ` Michaël Le Barbier
2007-11-15 22:24 ` Michaël Le Barbier
2007-11-16 0:30 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-11-16 1:51 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 9:23 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-16 14:17 ` rossberg
2007-11-16 15:08 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 16:43 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 16:46 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-16 17:27 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 17:47 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 17:54 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 18:10 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 19:18 ` David Allsopp
2007-11-16 19:32 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 19:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-16 17:31 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 17:43 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 0:46 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-16 8:23 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-11-16 8:58 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2007-11-16 9:13 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-11-16 9:48 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-14 16:57 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 21:04 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 22:09 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 0:17 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-11-15 6:23 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 10:53 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-11-15 13:48 ` Jacques Carette
2007-11-15 14:43 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-15 16:54 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-14 16:09 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 16:20 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-14 11:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-14 10:57 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-14 14:37 ` Zheng Li
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