Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Back to work

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> Here's my take on this: the bitset library should be merged with the
> bigint library, and the whole kit and kaboodle should be built on top of
> GMP for performance (especially the bigint stuff).  This necessitates
> extending GMP.  I have some code written that I need to clean up and
> submit to the GMP group, and then I need to look at hosting GMP from
> Ocaml.

Uhm, maybe that's a little bit far from ExtLib objectives.
ExtLib should be small, and no contains any C code (because then
installation / dependencies etc... are starting being really a big
problem ).
I you need a very efficient bitset, then of course you can write and provide
a standalone library for this purpose, but ExtLib bitset should be enough
for most of the users.

> - I have a reimplementation of psqueue about 1/3rd the way through debug.
> The interface won't change at all.  The implementation is changing
> radically, in a way that radically improves the maintainability (and
> testability I comment) of the code.  The goal here is to have the
> possibility that some human on the face of this earth other than me could,
> if dire need arose, actually understand the code :-).  The new code
> structure is also signfigantly shorter- the same behavior was implemented
> with about 1/3rd less code.  Which is made up for by the fact that I've
> added new code I've intended to for a while- primarily Enum support.

Ok, waiting 'till done :)

Nicolas Cannasse