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ANN OCaml Batteries Included alpha 1

David Teller
- Andrej Bauer
  - David Teller
- Peng Zang
  - Jan Kybic
    - Daniel_Bünzli
      - Daniel_Bünzli
    - Markus Mottl
    - Peng Zang
  - David Teller
    - Peng Zang
      - David Teller
        
        Peng Zang
- Stefano Zacchiroli

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Top-level with compiled libraries, Was: ANN OCaml Batteries Included

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Jan Kybic <kybic@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> Hello. On the subject of using toplevel: I would love to use toplevel
> to test my code but I need a lot of compiled libraries (written in C)
> - such as FFTW, Lacaml, etc. - and as far as I know, it is not
> possible to use compiled code from toplevel. Or am I wrong? Also, some
> of my code is quite computationally intensive, so in byte-code it runs
> too slowly.

It is certainly possible to use Lacaml (and presumably also FFTW) in
toplevels.  There shouldn't be any noticable performance penalty,
since almost all of the computation time is spent in external
libraries written in Fortran or C.

Regards,
Markus

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