Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net> writes:

> On 28-10-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>> Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net> writes:
>>> On 28-10-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>>>> Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net> writes:
>>>>> On 28-10-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> PS: Is a.{i} <- x a C call?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> That obviously sucks. I was hoping since the compiler has a special
>> syntax for it it would be built-in. Bigarray being a seperate module
>> should have clued me in.
>>
>> That obviously speaks against splitting int64 into 8 bytes and calling
>> a.{i} <- x for each.
>>
>> I think I will implement your method and C stubs for every set/get and
>> compare.
>
> This is only the case with int64 array in fact (I really have done test
> and you don't need a C call in most case).

Can I assume you tested on a 32bit cpu?

MfG
        Goswin