Re: [Caml-list] O'Caml vs C++: a little benchmark

[Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>]

On Sunday 18 August 2002 03:16 pm, Markus Mottl wrote:

> My timings differ considerably (AMD Athlon 800 MHz 256 MB RAM; g++-2.96;
> demo_all.sh instead of demo_all_root.sh):

g++-3.2 removes abstraction penalty related to iterators, etc.

[...]
> Note, btw., that I have measured user time: real time, which you have
> chosen is just too unstable on my machine. 

On my machine/OS (Linux 2.4), user and real time are usually the same for 
ocaml, but can differ somewhat for C++ (probably because malloc/free is done 
by the kernel or something, I wouldn't know). Had I used user time, it would 
have steered the results in favor of C++ a little more in some cases.

[...]
> Not on my machine / with my compiler. Btw., not very fair of you to
> compare ephemeral and persistent datastructures... ;-)

I'm not! Both tree_mutable_ml.ml and tree_cpp.cpp contain mutable binary 
trees. I think your C++ tree is slower than mine because of the old compiler
(Or maybe it's the OS: tree allocates a lot of small objects).

[...]
> Look at the assembler output for details... ;-)

IANAAP (I am not an assembly programmer :)

Cheers,
Oleg

P.S. It looks like List and Array iteration is somehow much faster on Athlon 
than P3 Xeon.
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