From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939C1BC58 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:24:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtEBAHb460zLOwFrkWdsb2JhbACUao4EFQEBAQEJCwoHEQMfvWyFSwSOBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,245,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="89217034" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2010 02:24:19 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlUFAP/360zLzuai/2dsb2JhbACUao4Ecb1phUsEjgc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,245,1288540800"; d="scan'208";a="711512924" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2010 09:24:16 +0800 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C764106D15 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:24:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:24:15 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is OCaml fast? Message-Id: <20101124122415.0d62a10a.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <068901cb8b69$b9021720$2b064560$@com> References: <538372.76249.qm@web111505.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20101123225615.GA28697@siouxsie> <068901cb8b69$b9021720$2b064560$@com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 statically:01 wrote:01 typing:01 caml-list:01 lisp:02 dynamic:03 typed:04 inherited:04 erik:04 erik:04 i'm:09 curious:09 despite:11 Jon Harrop wrote: > Many of the things that can make OCaml and Java slow were inherited > from Lisp. They are, in effect, designs that still bear the burden > of dynamic typing despite being statically typed. I'm curious, what in your opinion are those things? Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/