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Le 17 nov. 05 =E0 23:43, Daniel B=FCnzli a =E9crit :

>
> Le 17 nov. 05 =E0 23:16, Damien Bobillot a =E9crit :
>
>> PS : I think it will perhaps have the same problems as floating =20
>> computation, which is not really efficient. As far as I know, =20
>> floats are not stored as float in memory, but as a generic ocaml =20
>> value  : a pointer to a structure contains a tag indicating that =20
>> it's a float, and after the IEEE float value.
>
> This not exactly true. As an exception, they are unboxed in records =20=

> and arrays made of floats only [1,2].
>
> Note that you can also use bigarrays [3] to have unboxed arrays of =20
> any scalar datatype.
>
> This page [4] (unfortunately not available in the faq of the new =20
> ocaml site) contains interesting information about writing =20
> numerical code in ocaml.

Ok, and thank you for the references.

Perhaps, writing a bigarray-like module for vectorized operation may =20
be the solution.

> [1] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/=20
> manual032.html#htoc218>
> [2] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/=20
> manual032.html#htoc219>
> [3] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/=20
> manual043.html#htoc261>
> [4] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/numerical.html>


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