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Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modules or classes?

Joel Reymont
- Tom
- Xavier Leroy
- Chris King
- Markus Mottl
- brogoff
  - Tom
    - Andreas Rossberg
      - skaller
        
        David Baelde
        
        Lukasz Stafiniak
        
        Andreas Rossberg
        
        skaller

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modules or classes?

On 2/22/07, Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The slides seem to favor the class-based solution but then I hear
> that classes in OCaml are slow and people like Markus Mottl just
> plain despise them :-). What does everyone else opine?

Well, I think it needs to be said here that I don't "despise classes",
which are still much better in OCaml than in any mainstream language,
but I certainly prefer modules for almost all purposes (as most
ML-programmers seem to), and this is not for speed reasons.

Regards,
Markus

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