Re: [Caml-list] Re: Fwd: More re GC hanging

2010-08-15 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:41:44AM +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: Maybe it has nothing todo, but you talked about ocaml-ssl possibly and your application hanging, it reminds me: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591891 ocaml-ssl and ocaml-dbus are involved, so maybe the guilty

Re: [Caml-list] Re: SHA1 = stdlib ?!

2010-04-25 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 03:29:08PM +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: Cryptokit is written by X. Leroy, the same author as OCaml. what about technical arguments/reasons instead of fanboyism ? cryptokit has lots of good things, and some reason to choose them over my ocaml-sha bindings, but i find the

Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?

2008-10-23 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Hugo Ferreira wrote: Thomas Gazagnaire wrote: I would prefer to not have an editor which modify completely the file I am working on (ie. automatically replace tab by spaces). When working on big project, you cannot assume that everybody use

Re: [Caml-list] XML library for validating MathML

2008-09-18 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:58:05AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote: Given a string containing a mathematical expression in the MathML markup, I need to verify that the expression is indeed valid MathML. I am therefore looking for an XML library that can verify an expression against a given DTD.

Re: [Caml-list] Haskell vs OCaml

2008-08-14 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:57:47PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: and Haskell is faster than most (scripting) languages used these days anyway). Despite being written in Python, Mercurial is orders of magnitude faster than Darcs. (wow, very funny) by the same stupid thinking process:

Re: [Caml-list] Value shadowing (tangent)

2008-08-13 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:49:23AM -0700, Brighten Godfrey wrote: Going off on a tangent here... On Aug 13, 2008, at 2:56 AM, David Allsopp wrote: let lst = [5; 4; 3; 2; 1; 0; -1; -2; -3; -4; -5] in let filter = List.filter (fun x - x 0) in let double = List.map (fun x - -2 * x)

Re: [Caml-list] equality operators in OCaml

2008-07-24 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:27:51PM -0500, Raj Bandyopadhyay wrote: Hi OCaml folk I apologize if I've been asking too many questions on this list recently, but I'm working on a heavy OCaml application and need help sometimes. I am having a disagreement with a colleague about how the

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml **cks

2008-05-09 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:23:50AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: That's just crazy talk. Nobody can afford to ignore the multicore era that we have been in for some time now. I can find lots of interesting use of all my cores without having all my programs be _automaticly_ multi threaded.

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks

2008-05-09 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:25:49AM +0200, David Teller wrote: On the contrary, that is not a theoretical statement at all: it already happened. F# already makes it much easier to write high performance parallel algorithms and its concurrent GC is the crux of that capability.