From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656E8BC69 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 08:32:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.135]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4V6WkRQ019570 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 08:32:47 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.14,596,1170595800"; d="scan'208";a="97066554" Received: from ppp9-14.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([59.167.9.14]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 31 May 2007 16:02:35 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comparison of OCaml and MLton for numerics From: skaller To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200705310717.01553.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <5195a210705302250u6a9e5adey4ed857480f9e5cd8@mail.gmail.com> <200705310717.01553.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 16:32:31 +1000 Message-Id: <1180593151.9670.2.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 465E6C0E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 compilers:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 unsafe:01 optimizing:02 languages:03 numerical:03 zhu:04 comparison:04 On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 07:17 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 06:50:05 Yuanchen Zhu wrote: > > The performance numbers were as following: > > > > Ocaml (unsafe) : user: 39.674s, real: 41.356s > > MLton (safe): user: 17.981s, real: 21.968s > > You may be interested to know that there are no optimizing SML compilers for > AMD64, which is a much better platform for numerical work: > > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/results.html I'm afraid your information is out of date. MLton runs on AMD64 now. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net