From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698F2BCB0 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5D3Om2O013020 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:24:48 +0200 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 12so182427nzp for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:24:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=agIRIq+cV+TQVERIRaPS4uhWf71CRhF219ONpLSpttSJ5PsHs9wa6oSSbqXw7C+Ap9TQBQNdqmT5bGX7YxCPILteezcBsc6B44Dnz3pL+/lCMflNbBVx9umw0RHktwtJjEbvWtQ9lYX+6CNGDZsgMlc3MAt/magcJD8Gd7zoaMY= Received: by 10.36.2.20 with SMTP id 20mr2616665nzb; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.55.15 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9bbd2794050612202412a79ed2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:24:47 -0700 From: Alex Goldman Reply-To: Alex Goldman To: Jon Harrop Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Mini ray tracer Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200506130346.06550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200506130346.06550.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42ACFC80.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 tracer:01 tracer:01 ocamlopt:01 languages:03 alex:03 alex:03 experiments:04 linked:06 stuff:08 i'm:08 might:10 interesting:10 interesting:10 slow:11 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/languages.html Thanks. A lot of very interesting stuff there. I'm surprised that SMLNJ is as fast as OCamlopt on x86. I thought it had a reputation for being slow because it's "continuations-based" (or whatever). Java is the only one bytecode-compiled, so it's also interesting that it's competitive in speed. It might be interesting to see how C/C++ does when linked with Boehm's GC. My own experiments with it impressed me very much.