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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures
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> I will add that we did not made this experiment to beat F# or python's
> hashtables, so I will not comment on that here. The point about
> performance is that it should be *predictable*.

Perhaps an off-topic and naive question:
What does it take to beat F# and still
have predictable performance?

In any case, OC4MC is very encouraging.
Congrats to the team!