On 11.12.2006, at 14:21, Jon Harrop wrote: >> It's not a matter of number, it's a matter of availability when new >> processors appear on the market. How much time passes on average >> between the availability of a new processor type and the availability >> of a native code compiler for OCaml? > > OCaml had AMD64 support before many other language. It had a better > optimiser before gcc...
A concrete example of interest to me: can I get an OCaml-to-native compiler for an IBM BlueGene? The processor is in the PowerPC family, but it has some modifications, and the binary format is different from standard Linux as well. Konrad. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS Orléans Synchrotron Soleil - Division Expériences Saint Aubin - BP 48 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France Tel. +33-1 69 35 97 15 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
