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: [Caml-list] OCaml-Java 2.0 preview: call for testers Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:21:46 +0200

Dear list,The OCaml-Java is a project whose goal is to allow compilationof OCaml sources to Java bytecode, thus allowing execution onany JVM. The objectives are to gain access to a greater numberof libraries, and to be able to take advantage of multiple cores.Quite a lot of work has been done in order to greatly improvethe performances of the code generated by the "ocamljava"compiler. Roughly speaking, some preliminary benchmarksseem to indicate that ocamljava-generated code is most ofthe time less than three times slower than ocamlopt-generated one.This very mail is sent to try to gather feedback from the community.As of today, the source is neither stabilized nor complete, and onlya binary version is available. Installation is very simple: uncompressthe archive, and put the "bin" subdirectory in your path.More information can be found in the "README" file of the archive.The archive can be downloaded at the following address:For this version, I am mostly interested in compatibility reports,and performance considerations. Although the compiler is alreadyable to compile itself, it is probably wise to start with smallerexamples...Thanks in advance for your feedback,Xavier ClercPS: I would have prefered to put the file on http://forge.ocamlcore.org but was not able to upload such a big file (about 63 Mb)