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- Mattias Waldau
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Date: | 2004-05-25 (07:27) |
From: | Mattias Waldau <mattias.waldau@a...> |
Subject: | re: [Caml-list] Large projects in OCaml |
ExcelEverywhere, which converts Excel spreadsheets into web pages where JavaScript does all the calculation is written in Ocaml. The program consists of 40,000 lines of Ocaml, a 10,000 lines of JavaScript and Excel VBA. We do no GUI in Ocaml, everything is done in VBA. The ocaml-part is just a native code compiled win32-executable. We had very few problems with bugs with the ocaml-implementation, and always found simple workarounds. Development is done on cygwin and linux, since we really like ocamldebug, the debugger that can execute backwards. One big problem is that many of the good ocaml libraries are GPL, and cannot be used by ISV. For example, we had to implement our own XML-library. If your datastructures are large, I would not recommend delivering byte-compiled code. It is noticable slower and easily runs out of memory. If you use resonable datastructure, speed will not be a problem. Good luck, Mattias ------------------- 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