On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:03:55PM +0000, Ian Oversby wrote:
> Does this mean that unboxing is inefficient in OCaml?  I've written an 
> alternative version of the C++ that returns NULL instead of out of bound 
> values which was close to the same speed so it would be a little 
> disappointing if I couldn't achieve something similar in OCaml with Some / 
> None.

It's not so much that boxing/unboxing is inefficient in OCaml, but
rather that ocamlopt compiles exactly what you ask it to.  If you ask
it to use a box, it uses a box!  (Well, mostly ...)

See: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/numerical.html
in particular the note about Gallium.

Rich.

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