Xavier Leroy wrote:
> 
> > I have some code for processing ISO-10646 characters and UTF-8,
> > which uses caml integers. ISO-10646 has 2^31 code points, which
> > can be covered by caml integers on a 32bit machine. Using an
> > unboxed type is mandatory for performance.
> 
> OCaml 3.00 includes three new library modules, Int32, Int64 and
> Nativeint, implementing (boxed) 32-bit, 64-bit and platform-native
> integers, resepctively.  (Platform-native integers are 32 bits on 32
> bit processors and 64 bits on 64 bit processors).  The native-code
> compiler was modified to inline the operations on those types,
> including elimination of unnecessary boxing/unboxing, like for floats.
> That may or may not be efficient enough for your application.

	This is probably enough, provided I can write
conversions to/from ints.

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