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| From: | John Prevost <jmp@a...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] bigarrays and toplevel on Win32? |
>>>>> "xl" == Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:
xl> The party line on unsafe array accesses is unclear: on the one
xl> hand, we do not want to encourage their use, as it can break
xl> type safety and dramatically reduce the safety of the
xl> programs; on the other hand, they are handy when benchmarking
xl> against C or Fortran :-)
Think of it less as an "unsafe array access" and more of "license to
turn a given set of exceptions into core dumps in exchange for
efficiency." ;)
John.
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