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From: Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml efficiency
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:17:19 +0400 (MSD)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204252014110.6225-100000@ontil.ihep.su> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424140512.A17777@pauillac.inria.fr>

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> In both cases, OCaml will not only give you lower performance than
> say C, Fortran or assembly, but the OCaml code will not be
> cleaner nor easier to write than the C or Fortran code.

 Btw., many of the numerical algorithms can be very well explained
in Caml when Fortran code is not readable at all.

 So, it's good for number crunching even when its efficiency
is much more poor then Fortran or C.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-25 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-20 10:03 Jérôme Marant
2002-04-20 14:51 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-04-20 15:38   ` Jérôme Marant
2002-04-22 19:48     ` Warp
2002-04-23 17:29       ` Jérôme Marant
2002-04-24 12:05 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-04-24 16:25   ` Jérôme Marant
2002-04-25 16:17   ` Vitaly Lugovsky [this message]
2003-02-17 18:03 Vincent Barichard
2003-02-18 21:25 ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2003-02-18 21:32 ` Matt Gushee
2003-02-19  0:57   ` Matt Gushee

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