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<JGibson> does this channel ever get much traffic?
<Taaus_> It has occasional outbursts of activity...
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<JGibson> ah
<JGibson> daily, or less often?
<Taaus> It varies :)
<JGibson> hehe ok i guess i'll have to idle for a while to find out then :)
<Taaus> That usually works :)
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<samx> we just had a 7 line outburst :-)
<JGibson> and to think i almost missed it!
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<ben> I was thinking about learning ocaml.
<ben> Anyone here know how the speed of execution compares to C?
* ben wonders if everyone fell asleep on their keyboards.
<JGibson> hi
<JGibson> yea, i have a benchmark for it. let me dig up the url
<ben> Ok, thanks.
<ben> I don't know C, and thought ocaml might be easier to learn.
<JGibson> perhaps
<JGibson> i think it has a some advantages over c
<ben> I got the impression from the reading I did,
<ben> that it was a higher-level language than C.
<JGibson> yea
<ben> I'm used to scripting languages like Python, PHP, etc.
<JGibson> it's not like we need the speed for 90% of what we do. plus, if you for some reason need the absolute fastest code, you can always interface ocaml with c.
<ben> Sure.
<ben> I take it that ocaml takes care of memory (de)allocation for you?
<JGibson> yup
<JGibson> you can control it to an extent too, in case the default setup doesn't work properly for your app
<ben> I run Linux (Redhat), and was interested in turning out ELF binaries.
<ben> Do I understand that it can compile into both an...
<ben> interpreted bytecode, and native executable?
<JGibson> yup
<JGibson> it works on a fair number of systems too
<JGibson> i don't have the list handy though
<ben> I thought about using it for programs on machines with limited resources.
<ben> For example, I don't necessarily want to install Python on a 486
<ben> but might could get by with an ocaml lib and compiled program.
<ben> Perhaps that's bad thinking.
<JGibson> yea. i don't know how the memory consumption is. the shootout link has some info i think.
<JGibson> if you're going to have half of it compiled, you may as well compile it all. imo
<ben> Yikes, I'd better hit the sack.
<ben> Thanks for the info.
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<MegaWatS> hi
<jemfinch> howdy
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<ketanu> Ther is a matter with the ocaml distributions : the maintainer for an ocaml library provided a package depending on ocaml>=3.04 while the ocaml package in debian is still on version 3.02 : isn't that quite strange ?
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<ketanu_> Ther is a matter with the ocaml distributions : the maintainer for an ocaml library provided a package depending on ocaml>=3.04 while the ocaml package in debian is still on version 3.02 : isn't that quite strange ?
<samx> that's free open source for you. nothing is ever quite as it should be
<ketanu_> wuw ?
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