From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E87BBC57 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:40:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUEACtN40xQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACUP44CFQEBFiIiwFeFSwSKWA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,210,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="66603023" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2010 12:40:08 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIgMv-000091-E3 for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:40:05 +0100 Received: from avelizy-155-1-94-54.w90-35.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.35.89.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:40:05 +0100 Received: from sylvain by avelizy-155-1-94-54.w90-35.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:40:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: Native toplevel? (was: OCamlJit 2.0) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4CE395D4.4000105@frisch.fr> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-155-1-94-54.w90-35.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 toplevel:01 frisch:01 frisch:01 byte-code:01 prototyping:01 prototyping:01 toplevel:01 ocaml:01 2.0:98 2.0:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 alain:01 alain:01 On 17-11-2010, Alain Frisch wrote: > On 11/16/2010 03:52 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> OCamlJit 2.0 was specifically designed for desktop processors and is >> not really portable to anything else in its current shape, because >> the target audience are people using the interactive top-level and >> the byte-code interpreter for rapid prototyping/development > > This looks like a very interesting project! > > Does performance really matter that much for rapid > prototyping/development? I can imagine other uses of the toplevel where > performance matters more, like theorem provers embedded in the OCaml > toplevel. > OASIS generates a setup.ml that is interpreted using the toplevel. Maybe, a native toplevel can enhance the speed of this process (it takes less than 1 second to run). http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org Regards, Sylvain Le Gall