From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:39:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503152339.20237.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <172f01077499b3d417604d0ad31f2bdb@cs.unm.edu>
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:07, William D.Neumann wrote:
> His point seems to be that programming in a
> "functional style"[1] is inherently slower than an imperative style
> because a list or a map have different performance characteristics than
> do arrays.
True, but don't forget that using arrays does not imply imperative programming
in general. For example, I partook in a thread on c.l.functional recently,
comparing the performance of the sieve of Erasthenes (I know, a
microbenchmark) in different languages. With a purely functional
implementation of arrays, the Haskell implementation beat C++ (with
vector<bool>) and was even competing with OCaml for a short while!
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-15 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 1:29 Karl Zilles
2005-03-15 8:32 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-15 8:45 ` Michael Vanier
2005-03-15 8:59 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-15 20:17 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 20:36 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-15 21:03 ` padiolea
2005-03-15 21:40 ` William D.Neumann
2005-03-15 22:12 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 23:07 ` William D.Neumann
2005-03-15 23:39 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2005-03-15 23:54 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-16 0:03 ` Christopher Dutchyn
2005-03-16 0:18 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 1:05 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 2:55 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 11:23 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-16 23:41 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 13:33 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 23:59 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 3:01 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-16 13:10 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-16 13:41 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-16 14:14 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-17 0:27 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 17:43 ` brogoff
2005-03-16 19:51 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 3:35 ` brogoff
2005-03-17 3:48 ` Yaron Minsky
2005-03-17 10:16 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 10:47 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 18:06 ` brogoff
2005-03-17 19:15 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-18 17:46 ` brogoff
2005-03-18 18:44 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-17 21:31 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 9:45 ` Christian Szegedy
2005-03-17 10:31 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-17 11:11 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-03-17 11:31 ` tail-recursion vs. no tail-recursion in list functions sebastian.egner
2005-03-17 21:41 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-18 0:04 ` David Brown
2005-03-18 0:06 ` Karl Zilles
2005-03-18 1:13 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-17 0:21 ` [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot Oliver Bandel
2005-03-17 1:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-17 17:32 ` Jason Hickey
2005-03-17 19:06 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-17 0:14 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 1:38 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-03-31 11:42 ` Paul Argentoff
2005-03-31 11:41 ` Paul Argentoff
2005-03-15 20:06 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 9:25 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-15 10:08 ` YANG Shouxun
2005-03-15 20:02 ` Yoann Padioleau
2005-03-15 22:33 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-16 1:33 ` YANG Shouxun
2005-03-15 10:34 ` padiolea
2005-03-15 10:52 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-03-15 14:12 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-03-15 15:25 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-03-15 18:05 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-03-15 18:26 ` Kip Macy
2005-03-16 0:32 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 11:26 ` David Fox
2005-03-15 18:55 ` Christopher A. Watford
2005-03-15 19:56 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-16 0:35 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-16 0:34 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-18 6:04 Harrison, John R
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