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native code and ZINC machine
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Aaron Bohannon
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Xavier Leroy
- David Brown
- Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
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Xavier Leroy
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| Date: | 2004-11-06 (16:53) |
| From: | David Brown <caml-list@d...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] native code and ZINC machine |
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote: > The ZINC / OCaml VM handling of curried function application (an > instance of the push-enter model) pretty much requires that parameters > are passed on a stack. For native code generation, it is much more > efficient to pass the first N parameters in processor registers. This > doesn't fit the ZINC model at all. Just out of curiosity, what model does the native compiler use when evaluating functions of unknown arity (List.map for example). Dave