Updates to FFI spec

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Fri Sep 13 08:21:48 EDT 2002


12 Aug 2002 11:33:41 +0100, Alastair Reid <alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk> pisze:

> (In the image processing example, images were megabytes and an
> expression like (x + (y * mask)) would generate 2 intermediate images
> (several megabytes) while doing just 2 reductions in Haskell.)

OCaml allows the programmer to specify an approximate amount of
foreign memory in its wrapped C pointers. Maybe it's a good idea?

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