On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:34:02PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> In this case, most of the speed loss can be regained by simply
> aggressively inlining everything, which is exactly what you (ab)used
> C macros for in the C code.

I don't understand this.  In 'blend2.ml' (which I was responsible for)
C macros are used to inline all the OCaml functions the same as in the
C version.  Yet it's still 70% slower than the C version.

My suspicion was that it was to do with his use of a string as a byte
array.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat