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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD053BBAF for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:14:48 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au8AAEi5m0jVJFBbmWdsb2JhbACRPgEBAQEBCAUGCREDmTw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,327,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="28053460" Received: from mx-out.libertysurf.net (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) ([213.36.80.91]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Aug 2008 12:14:45 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (91.168.190.245) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.3.118.8) id 482DD26E01659D93 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:19:02 +0200 From: Florent Monnier To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] C / OCaml exchange ratio Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:16:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200808071930.52851.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200808071930.52851.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> X-Face: -0"dKXwF0PiXr]fa$^)NJY7$;waqUckGcM7&q,VU?Xv\[=CiVM]g]pDs^xmfU9+Q=Z,OdfMHUR-7Ao%evJh.=aiq,#r0Ux0dm'!l|zeAXj||$>1_(Lv4Hc",&F}sbHeK0`SBA$_|XP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808081216.52642.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml-list:01 manual:06 function:08 function:08 think:13 difference:14 says:22 calling:22 that:23 what:24 didn't:27 the:27 the:27 > The manual says that the cost of an ocaml function call from C is more > expensive than calling a C function from OCaml. > > What is approximatively the ratio ? > > Is it more or less than 2 ? experimentally, I find a ratio of about 5.5 I didn't think the difference was so much. -- Florent