On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Some people are sometimes writing or thinking about writing
>   applications in OCaml without knowing it OCaml is suitable
>   for the kind of applications they're writing.
> 
>   So my question is for what kind of applications isn't OCaml
>   suitable for and better written in a lower lever language?
> 
>   What is the real cost (in CPU) of interfaces to C libraries
>   since some processing have to be performed in order to convert
>   lower level types to Caml types?

 I think, that there is no formal answer to your question.
Use profiler to find out the bottleneck...


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