Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Harrop
On Friday 27 February 2009 21:34:35 Jon Harrop wrote: Oh dear. Then I am very sorry to tell you that Tim Rentsch's book is virtually identical to your own, having been tweaked just enough to evade copyright. Actually the later chapters (about a third of the main text) are entirely different.

Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)

2009-02-28 Thread Tim Rentsch
Caml-list readers, The quoted remarks appended below, sent out to Caml-list yesterday, have just come to my attention. I'm not sure what Jason intended with his post, but I thought I should respond to clear up possible confusion or misimpressions. Earlier this week, a potential reviewer

[Caml-list] ocamlbuild and ocamlfind - infer_interface

2009-02-28 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Hello. A small comment on the ocamlbuild wiki, and more specifically on its plugin for ocamlfind: http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Using_ocamlfind_with_ocamlbuild This plugin fails to generate .inferred.mli files. The following lines (thanks to bluestorm on #ocaml irc channel) are

Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Kuba Ober
I am developing a high-level virtual machine built upon LLVM and written in OCaml that uses JIT compilation to execute OCaml-like code at break- neck speeds. I just stumbled upon a weird performance result: compiling my VM with ocamlc and ocamlopt produces very different benchmark results

Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild and ocamlfind - infer_interface

2009-02-28 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
Excerpts from Guillaume Yziquel's message of Sat Feb 28 21:08:46 +0100 2009: Hello. A small comment on the ocamlbuild wiki, and more specifically on its plugin for ocamlfind: http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Using_ocamlfind_with_ocamlbuild This plugin fails to generate

Re: [Caml-list] Odd performance result with HLVM

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:18:40 Kuba Ober wrote: You didn't let us in on how it really works. You said high-level virtual machine built upon LLVM and written in OCaml. LLVM means too many things to be able to decipher what you mean, and your statement is too general. I'm referring to my