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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71340BC66 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:22:14 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Am4AAAk26kyAsuDbkWdsb2JhbACUWI4dAQEBAQkLCgcRBR29ZIVLBIpe X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,237,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="80713591" Received: from smtp0.epfl.ch ([128.178.224.219]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 22 Nov 2010 18:21:59 +0100 Received: (qmail 18493 invoked by uid 107); 22 Nov 2010 17:21:59 -0000 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV Received: from 85-218-16-6.dclient.lsne.ch (85.218.16.6) (authenticated) by smtp0.epfl.ch (AngelmatoPhylax SMTP proxy) with ESMTPA; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:21:59 +0100 Message-Id: From: Philippe Strauss To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is OCaml fast? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:21:58 +0100 References: <1110536178.728445.1290434684177.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml-list:01 comparison:05 thread:06 benchmarks:07 philippe:11 posts:12 poster:13 such:14 language:15 reading:16 2010:83 com:74 html:74 answer to the original poster: ocaml is surprisingly fast for such a high level language, i like this insight/comparison: http://youinfinitesnake.blogspot.com/2010/09/programming-language-wars-movie.html (even if the benchmarks can be improved reading others posts of this thread)