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JIT-compilation for OCaml?

Markus Mottl
- Mattias Waldau
  - Markus Mottl
    - Mattias Waldau
      - Markus Mottl
      - STARYNKEVITCH Basile
    - Alain Frisch
      - Fabrice Le Fessant
        
        Alain Frisch
    - John Max Skaller
      - Markus Mottl
        
        John Max Skaller
    - Joseph R. Kiniry
      - Markus Mottl
        
        Joseph R. Kiniry
        
        Markus Mottl
        
        Joseph R. Kiniry
        
        Jonathan Coupe
        
        Chris Hecker
        
        Sven LUTHER
        
        Joseph R. Kiniry
        
        John Max Skaller
        
        John Max Skaller
  - Sven LUTHER
- Vitaly Lugovsky

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Markus Mottl <mottl@m...>
Subject:	Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml?

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Mattias Waldau wrote:
> If you just want portability, then why not generate Java-byte code instead
> of Ocaml-bytecode. Then you can distribute you Ocaml-applications in Jars.
> And you can benefit from the JIT of SUN etc, for example SUN's latest JIT
> called HotSpot.

This would be a (pragmatic) possibility. As far as I have heard, OCaml
byte code has advantages over and/or is cleaner than Java byte code. I
am not competent here to judge this - details anybody?

- Markus Mottl

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