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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4E0BBAF for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:39:39 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkYBAAcB6kzRVdg0kGdsb2JhbACiTQgVAQEBAQkJDAcRAx+iT4ljghiEZi6IWQEBAwWFRgSKXoV9 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,236,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="67823227" Received: from mail-qw0-f52.google.com ([209.85.216.52]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 22 Nov 2010 14:39:39 +0100 Received: by qwb8 with SMTP id 8so45384qwb.39 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:39:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=zZXC6i6wS2uMIbw1D19N8yTUrjE79zc3uJ4P5bUp+/I=; b=vYNfNKQLaAhBy8OzReRVg8/aKgcF+Ryi+Y5m+XY9O5xv+mbTGY/c1YD/x0xltkF1nS f7UR1wVIQg8f0vvdsyK966PCJap4jnIYw9gpO4bm19UScgQZB1aQKjMWwewnzLL+nN0N vJCOs2SkHfIf7CBqYwx4JokcErkQrgmX7T4X8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=u0DXbC5TkYLCR2S13kkBux9qxd79fznJTsRJmB/SpkwuBxBvLGSfPEkmKlAVOozRSS uEMn1ZLY28cZRFviSPQmNJE7b4uFvVyQOvPqLoe1Lcxxo93Yofn90r2g/m5sU7VEpvNV 1IjdiMBYTGhREPMIabC7/WHHjvZ79qnbcQBmg= Received: by 10.229.80.194 with SMTP id u2mr5227146qck.49.1290433178404; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:39:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.217.131 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:39:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Lukasz Stafiniak Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:39:10 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is OCaml fast? To: Gregory Bellier Cc: Thanassis Tsiodras , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam: no; 0.00; lukasz:01 ocaml:01 o'caml:01 segfault:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 shootout:02 apps:04 depends:04 suggests:04 stuff:09 horrible:12 though:13 kind:13 should:13 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Gregory Bellier wrote: > If you want speed then you should learn assembly or choose C as a second > choice. > It depends on the kind of apps you'd like to write. Even though O'Caml is > fast, it's not the first criteria I have in mind which would be security : > no segfault, no need to handle horrible stuff like in C, ... No! You should use ATS, just as the shootout suggests. (Portable) assembly is not a language for humans ;-)