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Documentation request: allocation of bigarrays in C

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- Dmitry Bely
  - Li-Thiao-Té_Sébastien
    - Jonathan Roewen
      - Li-Thiao-Té_Sébastien
    - Dmitry Bely
      - Li-Thiao-Té_Sébastien
        
        Dmitry Bely
        
        Nathaniel Gray

Date:	2006-04-03 (23:45)
From:	Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Documentation request: allocation of bigarrays in C

On 4/2/06, Li-Thiao-Té Sébastien <sayan@crans.org> wrote:
> I do not know in advance the size of the multiple bigarrays to allocate.
> This is determined by parsing the file. To speed up the process, the
> file is parsed on the C side, which is why I want to do GC-friendly
> memory allocation directly from C.

Do you have evidence that the parsing would be significantly slower in
ocaml?  I'm not attacking you, I'm just curious to know if you've made
measurements.

Cheers,
-n8

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