On Friday 01 June 2007 12:43:26 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > I could not agree with this sentiment more.  Stephen actually now works
> > at Jane Street, and since his arrival he's taught us a  number of
> > techniques for using modules and functors to organize and factor code
> > more
> > effectively.  Some of these techniques were obviously born in the context
> > of Mlton, where they have no performance penalty.  It's downright
> > annoying to have to avoid these techniques in performance-sensitive code
> > in OCaml.  In other words, factoring out with functors and modules is
> > good style, but OCaml penalizes you for it.
>
> Can the defunctorizor help?
>
>     http://www.lri.fr/~signoles/ocamldefun/manual.html
>
> Erik

Indeed, after you defunctorize what performance penalties are left by modules?

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