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ocaml, simd, & fftwgel RE: [Caml-list] Caml productivity.
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Gurr, David (MED, self)
- John Max Skaller
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Travis Bemann
- Xavier Leroy
- Noel Welsh
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| From: | Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: ocaml, simd, & fftwgel RE: [Caml-list] Caml productivity. |
> However, there is one thing that particularly disturbs me about OCaml
> - the way that it handles floating point values. In OCaml a floating
> point value is always 64 bit, and because only values that are always
> the size of a machine word internally are not allocated, floating
> point values in OCaml are ALWAYS allocated on the heap!!
"Often", but not "always". Detailed explanations on float boxing are
available here:
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/numerical.html
- Xavier Leroy
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