Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] write_double

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 01:15:28PM +0200, Florent Monnier wrote:
> Florent Monnier wrote :
> > Hi,
> > It would be possible to make write_double more than twice faster
> > (close to 3 times faster).
> > The tradeoff is that there is additional C code.
> >
> > Cheers
> 
> Have you decided to make the extlib with only ocaml code, 
> without any external C ?

That's the policy - to make it easier to port extlib to any platform
which supports OCaml.

Is it possible to match the speed-ups using pure OCaml code?  eg.  by
carefully looking at the generated assembler (ocamlopt -S) and
studying why it might be slow?

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat