From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D2DBCB0 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 04:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ptb-relay04.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5D2lCS4029387 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 04:47:13 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Dheyi-0004qQ-EF for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:47:08 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Mini ray tracer Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:46:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506130346.06550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42ACF3B0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; tracer:01 tracer:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 lacks:01 frog:98 native:02 caml:02 implemented:02 objective:02 languages:03 languages:03 comparison:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: I've been fiddling with my ray tracer again this weekend. This time I've come up with a comparison of four different (progressively optimised) versions of the ray tracer implemented in C++, Java, OCaml and SML: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/languages.html OCaml is significantly more concise that the other languages (even SML) but the big surprise for me was the incredible performance of straightforwardly- written Mlton-compiled SML, even on AMD64 where it lacks a native code-gen. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists