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From: "Jonathan Roewen" <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
To: "Jacques Garrigue" <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] question about how to bind c++ classes to ocaml
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> Calls from ocaml to C are very cheap. If your access function doesn't
> do any allocation (i.e. never calls the GC), you can even make it
> faster by marking it as "noalloc". Beware many functions do
> allocate, including copy_double or copy_string.

Is this a special annotation for the external keyword? A quick glance
over the ocaml manual doesn't show up anything.

Jonathan