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| From: | Oleg <oleg_inconnu@m...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement, Ensemble as an example |
On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:39 am, Dmitry Bely wrote: > I am not familiar with Ensemble, but they say in its overview that > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble/overview.html > [...] > Ensemble System. > > As Horus/C has matured, we have also encountered issues that recently lead > to a complete reimplementation of the system using a subset of the ML > programming language. To avoid confusion, we have begun to call this > version of our system Ensemble. The subset of ML employed for this work > translates directly into C, which can then be compiled in a normal manner, > and makes no use of ML's garbage collection features. Thus, the choice of > ML has no negative performance implications, and the code itself looks like > C++. > > Does it mean that Ensemble is *not* in fact an Ocaml application? By that, they seem to be saying that C++ would have done an equally good job at improving the productivity over C. Regards Oleg ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners