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Gbury / ocaml-memgraph

A small library to output memory graph for ocaml values
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difference with caml-inspect ? #1

Closed zoggy closed 2 years ago

zoggy commented 9 years ago

Hello,

In case you were not aware of it, caml-inspect seems to do almost the same as ocaml-memgraph. And by the way, I use it in a document for an OCaml course.

Do you have precise needs or ideas to implement ?

Gbury commented 9 years ago

The idea behind ocaml-memgraph was to have some fun, and possibly have a tool to show beginners how the values in ocaml were represented in the memory. I didn't know about inspect, but indeed, it pretty much does the same thing.

Gbury commented 2 years ago

Sorry for the (veeeeery long) delay. I looked a bit more detail into caml-inspect, and I'd say the main difference is that memgraph has a structured type to represent the memory graph of ocaml values (and has functions to create these representation), whereas I couldn't find it for caml-inspect, which seems to mainly have its dot creating functions that operate on arbitrary ocaml values. In that sense, memgraph might be easier to use for other things than to output dot (i.e. either to output to another format, or to write some analysis of memory values in pure ocaml).