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From: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
To: Damien Bobillot <damien.bobillot@m4x.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Video/Audio codecs in ocaml
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:25:28 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad8cfe7e0511170125v24d402f2pfb34ea06a9f2ff58@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <640063C5-4B83-4635-9E9B-755E0F80D5A3@m4x.org>

> With OCaml you can't use features like SIMD instructions of CPUs, and
> will do many bound checking, so it will be slower.
> I'm a bit sceptical that ocaml may be as good as C for pure signal
> processing.

Oh okay. Ah well, I'm doing a pure OCaml OS anyways, so we'll just
have to wait and see. Can bounds checking be disabled for just one
module?

> Writing a mpeg2 decoder won't take less than a week !!!

We'll see. It'd be more like rewriting something like libmpeg2 in
ocaml I think. It'd be a damn good attempt anyways ;-)

> If you have to write something, a ocaml wrapper for ffmpeg may be a
> good start.

No linking of program specific C code into OS, I'm afraid.

Jonathan


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17  4:41 Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-17  5:16 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-17  9:17   ` Damien Bobillot
2005-11-17  9:25     ` Jonathan Roewen [this message]
2005-11-17  9:51       ` Damien Bobillot
2005-11-17 18:46         ` David MENTRE
2005-11-17 18:48           ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-17 14:39   ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-17 14:56     ` skaller

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