From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Surreal-0.0.3
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:03:47 +0200

> The only problem of such a library might be its efficiency...

A pioneer work by Böhm et al shows that a naive approach using
functions as reals achieves better performance than a lazy approach
(at least the one using infinite n-base expansion).

The main point of Surreal is performance.  (So, I don't use lazy
approaches.)  I tried some idea to boost performance for large scale
computation.  Another reason I was discouraged is that I don't know
how to show the performance improvement.  I hope someone who has
experience with numerical computation looks my idea and judges whether
it is useful.

Yet another problem I have encountered is memory exhaustion.  In my
experiment, memory is major limitation (rather time).  caml lazy
construct always memorizes values, so one may encounter a similar
problem.  Haskel or other lazy languages may have better space
efficiency, though.

That's my thought.
--
Yamagata Yoriyuki
http://www.mars.sphere.ne.jp/yoriyuki/
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