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 89707BCAF for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:21:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5G6LuMo012612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:21:56 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DinlB-0002SW-NX for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:21:53 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Mini ray tracer Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:20:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200506130346.06550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <9bbd2794050612202412a79ed2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9bbd2794050612202412a79ed2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506160720.41452.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42B11A84.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 tracer:01 tracer:01 ocamlopt:01 matthias:01 blume:01 bug:01 sml:01 sml:01 ocaml:01 ingenious:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml:02 objective:02 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: On Monday 13 June 2005 04:24, Alex Goldman wrote: > > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/languages.html > > Thanks. A lot of very interesting stuff there. I'm surprised that > SMLNJ is as fast as OCamlopt on x86... Ahem, it seems that the evil Matthias Blume worked an ingenious bug into his SML port of my ray tracer which sped it up by 70%. So I've redone the study and SML is now much less favourable. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists