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Ocamlopt code generator question

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: Ocamlopt x86-32 and SSE2

On Monday 11 May 2009 04:43:21 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > As far as I know, one is using ocamlopt to improve performance.
> > I can't think of any case where one would need native code running on
> > pre-SS2 machines which are so outdated performance-wise.
>
> You mean we should make slow machines even slower?

Old machines can still run old versions of OCaml at full speed.

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