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 concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D12BBBB for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:04:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k24E4k3W014902 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:04:46 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA03647 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:04:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k24E4jML016047 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:04:45 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i7so1083131wra for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:04:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=bC2q7rKXoStq3FzIaYt/tSyZTLJMbIA9R9AN3eKBT6tWWRiQLcAJ+o/WdhOn+H3mSupVooOqnzSxCFUxMHljimGqisB1HpJfDfIuKlIUO7zFSNB4of5zJXoH+XWvIBoo1rOylBD8JvlAqrqcpsdOG/fW2VuOm5OkUpkbzbuVBDo= Received: by 10.65.197.9 with SMTP id z9mr1949923qbp; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.44.14 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:04:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:04:44 +0000 From: "Sarah Mount" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Benchmarks against imperative languages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44099E7E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44099E7D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 imperative:01 bagley:02 languages:03 languages:03 doug:03 informal:04 performs:06 benchmarks:07 benchmarks:07 seem:07 cases:08 gmail:09 might:10 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Informal benchmarks (Doug Bagley, Jon Harrop, ...) of OCaml code against other languages seem to suggest that Ocaml code performs about as well as C++ code in many cases. Does anyone know of any published (as in dead-tree) work that might confirm/deny this? Thanks! Sarah -- http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/imd/ http://varspool.blogspot.com http://varspool.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-pass-your-final-year-thesis.htm= l