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Ah, I guess I think of ocamlrun as just an interpreter.  But you're right, 
that's also a vm.

Peng

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 07:47:25 pm ben kuin wrote:
> > OCaml doesn't have a vm like the jvm.
>
> ocamlc compiles to bytecode
> ocamlrun interprets the bytecode
> bytecode interpreter == vm
> hence ocaml has a vm
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Peng Zang <peng.zang@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 07:22:56 am ben kuin wrote:
> >> I think this 3 point are REASONABLE but the combination of those 3
> >> items is INEXISTENT.
> >>
> >> Ocaml: the vm is not very fast (no jit AFAIK)
> >>
> >>
> >> So I guess the best thing would be to use good ol Ocaml in native
> >> mode...?
> >
> > What do you mean by vm?  OCaml doesn't have a vm like the jvm.  Although
> > there's been some great work on compiling OCaml for the jvm.  OCaml does
> > have a toplevel interpreter.  It even has a native mode toplevel now
> > that's suppose to be fast (anyone have any experience with this?).  So
> > that's good. And of course as you pointed out you can always compile
> > OCaml code to native machine code which has always had good performance.
> >
> > Peng
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