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[Caml-list] Bigarray is a pig

Brandon J. Van Every
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Olivier Andrieu <andrieu@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Bigarray is a pig

 "Brandon J. Van Every" [Fri, 23 Jul 2004]:
 > I have been looking at the sources of the Bigarray implementation.
 > I am chagrined to discover that not only does Bigarray cost a
 > function call per array element access, 

No. Not always: when the type of the array is completely known to the
compiler at the point the element is accessed, ocamlopt will access
the element directly, without using the generic C function.

-- 
   Olivier

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