> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:47:27AM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > > Are there any specs for CAML bytecode?
> > 
> > Not much.  There is an old technical report (1990!) that documents
> > the Caml Light virtual machine in some details:
> > 
> >         http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/ZINC.ps.gz
> > 
> > The Objective Caml virtual machine is a second iteration of the Caml
> > Light VM, with some complications removed (e.g. one stack instead of
> > two).  However, there is no paper spec for it.
> 
> And is there any document that gives some description of the execution costs
> of different ocaml constructs ?
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven LUTHER

Difficult to tell. Have a look at the FAQ:

http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#couts

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/