> But my ocamljitrun.c still needs your ocaml sources to be compiled by
 > ocamlc. And you could use ocaml instead.

It appears to us simpler (but maybe it is not?) to compile and provide 
the ocamljit implementation than the ocaml classical interpreter.

 > And ocamlopt compiles source code quite quickly in practice (faster
 > that gcc is handling source code compiled with -O2).

I was more concerned about the time to compile the compiler than the 
time for it to compile our sources.

 > Did you ask the contest organizer if ocaml is a valid language?

It is hard to find this information on the website but only four 
languages are allowed: C/C++/C# and java. We emailed the organizers 
explaining that functional languages should also be proposed in the 
contest, and asked them whether it would be accepted to provide them 
with a C source code likely hard to read but compiling with minimal 
prerequisites and executing our program. As long as we accept to provide 
them with the original source code if they ask it, they find no 
objection to it. Hopefully if we manage to reach a high rank they will 
consider adding OCaml for next year contest ;)

Cheers,
Vincent.