Re: next meeting: Monday May 19th 10:00 - 12:00 CEST

[Kate <kit-ty-kate@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 4/29/25 11:45, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
> Hannes: question about the performance focus: arm? x86? 64 bits only?
> also 32 bits?

just FYI about 32bit, i think it's unlikely you'll want to take time to 
optimize for 32bit platforms given the current OCaml release schedule:
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/release-info/introduction.md#exceptional-lts-versions

4.14 should cease to be LTS next year and it's unlikely that 5.x will 
bring back 32bit native code support. It's still supported using the 
bytecode compiler but trying to optimize for that seems ambitious.
Also as you're moving from bigarray to bytes across various codebases, 
you're bound to get in trouble on 32bit platforms at some point where 
the size limit for strings is only 16MB (compared to 144PB on 64bit).
I'm not entirely sure what the discussion was precisely about so 
disregard my two comments if they're completely off the mark.
Cheers,
Kate