From: Dave Berry <daveb@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
To: "Ohad Rodeh" <ORODEH@il.ibm.com>, OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: productivity improvement
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:18:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.1.20020716211508.00a5cde0@pop3.btclick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF0ED09FFA.C03F4A8C-ONC2256BF7.0020B989@telaviv.ibm.com>
At 09:00 15/07/2002, Ohad Rodeh wrote:
>The previous incarnations of the system were written in C. Comparing
>line-counts for similar modules we got a 7:1 reduction when using OCaml.
I'm rather sceptical of line-counts as a measurement of overall
productivity, but that's still an impressive improvement. For constrast,
Andrew Appel wrote the sample compiler for his textbook in C, SML and Java,
and found that SML was the most concise, but not by anything like 7:1.
>The resulting system was also a lot more stable and easier
>to maintain.
Now that I can believe!
Dave.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-15 6:00 Ohad Rodeh
2002-07-16 20:18 ` Dave Berry [this message]
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2002-07-08 19:53 [Caml-list] " Oleg
2002-07-09 7:59 ` [Caml-list] Universal Serializer (was: productivity improvement) Nicolas Cannasse
2002-07-10 16:06 ` John Max Skaller
2002-07-12 10:37 ` [Caml-list] Re: productivity improvement Oleg
2002-07-12 11:23 ` Markus Mottl
2002-07-12 11:34 ` Oleg
2002-07-12 11:43 ` Markus Mottl
2002-07-12 12:59 ` Pierre Weis
2002-07-12 16:42 ` Markus Mottl
2002-07-14 20:44 ` Dave Berry
2002-07-14 22:13 ` Markus Mottl
2002-07-15 16:43 ` Alwyn Goodloe
2002-07-16 20:14 ` Dave Berry
2002-07-17 3:21 ` Eric Merritt
2002-07-15 9:39 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-15 8:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2002-10-17 21:27 ` Dave Berry
2002-10-18 2:48 ` Eray Ozkural
2002-10-20 12:46 ` Dave Berry
2002-10-21 6:11 ` Michael Vanier
2003-05-10 20:41 ` Eray Ozkural
2002-07-12 11:43 ` Noel Welsh
2002-07-12 12:10 ` Markus Mottl
2002-07-12 13:44 ` John Max Skaller
2002-07-12 16:19 ` Alan Schmitt
2002-07-12 20:41 ` John Carr
2002-07-12 21:24 ` Brian Smith
2002-10-15 8:57 ` Eray Ozkural
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