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[Caml-list] Timing Ocaml

Blair Zajac
- Chris Hecker
  - Dmitry Bely
    - Remi VANICAT
      - Lionel Fourquaux
- Xavier Leroy
  - Dmitry Bely
    - Lionel Fourquaux
      - Dmitry Bely
        
        Xavier Leroy
        
        Mattias Waldau
  - Blair Zajac
    - Florian Hars

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Chris Hecker <checker@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Timing Ocaml


>* The GNU C compiler gcc is recommended, as the bytecode
>   interpreter takes advantage of gcc-specific features to enhance
>   performance.
>What is the nature of these optimizations?

GCC lets you take the address of a label.  You can see in byterun/interp.c 
that it uses a jump table instead of a switch when you're using GCC.

At least, that's what it looks like.

Chris

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