[LLVMdev] first two chapters for the ocaml bindings in svn

[Jon Harrop]

On Monday 31 March 2008 09:56:45 Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> The full series of the ocaml tutorial is done! You can find it here:
>
> http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/
>
> Please let me know if you have any comments, bugs, suggestions, and
> etc. I'll send a mail to the ocaml mailing list tomorrow to drum up
> some interest from the other ocaml users.

I think your new OCaml tutorials and the original C++ ones are absolutely 
brilliant!

I do have one minor concern and that is that 25% of the tutorial covers lexing 
and parsing which is unrelated to LLVM. I would have expected a trivial 
dozen-line parser in OCaml following by lots of LLVM-specific stuff instead.

I also have two main requests for further tutorials:

. More about performance, e.g. what might a compiler using LLVM be expected to 
do itself in order to obtain decent performance and how easily can 
competitive performance (e.g. comparable with gcc) be obtained for simple 
examples.

. More about GC, e.g. a walkthrough of a really simple implementation for a 
garbage collected language like the old LLVM-based Scheme implementation with 
the Cheney semispace collector.

Fantastic work so far though. Thank you!

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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