About alternatives to Matlab

[konrad.hinsen at laposte.net]

On 11.12.2006, at 14:21, Jon Harrop wrote:

>> It's not a matter of number, it's a matter of availability when new
>> processors appear on the market. How much time passes on average
>> between the availability of a new processor type and the availability
>> of a native code compiler for OCaml?
>
> OCaml had AMD64 support before many other language. It had a better
> optimiser before gcc...

A concrete example of interest to me: can I get an OCaml-to-native  
compiler for an IBM BlueGene? The processor is in the PowerPC family,  
but it has some modifications, and the binary format is different  
from standard Linux as well.

Konrad.
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