Re: [Caml-list] Does Caml have slow arithmetics ?

[Evgeny Chukreev <sjah@land.ru>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:58:03 +0200
    Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:

> On the other hand, reducing inefficiencies already present in the
> source code isn't a priority.  In your "f" function, you asked for the
> construction of a pair, and you get that pair construction in
> ocamlopt's output.  If you didn't want the pair to be constructed, why
> did you write "f" this way?

This example was reduced version of:


let g a b =
    a*b, a+b


let f a b =
    let x, y = g a b in
    ...

with inlining we got:

let f a b =
    let x, y = a*b, a+b in
    ...

so pair will be constructed...
There is no way to return >1 values at once without contstructing
memory block and then decomposing it. Yes, I could do this as in C:

let g a b r1 r2 =
    r1 := a*b;
    r2 := a+b

let f a b =
    let x = ref 0 in
    let y = ref 0 in
        g a b x y;
        ...

but it's not best choice. Many of my functions return >1 values, so it's
not empty talking.

-- 
... WBR, Evgeny ...

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