Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand <michael@elehack.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, Python's hash tables are particularly optimized due to their wide
> > pervasive usage.  When you're testing Python hash tables, you're
> > really testing a carefully-written, thoroughly-tuned C implementation
> > of hash tables.

<snip>

> That being said, I think getting anything to run on JVM is a remarkable
> achievement! It would have been so cool to be able to run ocaml code
> inside a web browser. :) There are unfortunately few alternatives for
> running code inside a browser.

There are two pretty viable alternatives for running OCaml code in a web
browser - ocamljs[1] is a JavaScript backend for ocamlopt and O'Browser[2]
which is a JavaScript implementation of the OCaml bytecode interpreter (or
VM, as it's been called in this thread).


David

[1] http://code.google.com/p/ocamljs
[2] http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~canou/obrowser/tutorial