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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEBBBC58 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:10:08 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj4FAJKw6kxQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACBVJMPjgcVAQEWIiKIK6RGh2SJDIVLBIpe X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,239,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="80003677" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2010 03:10:08 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKiKa-0007Bp-Sm for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:10:04 +0100 Received: from c-24-4-7-10.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.4.7.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:10:04 +0100 Received: from igouy2 by c-24-4-7-10.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:10:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Isaac Gouy Subject: Re: Is OCaml fast? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1290434674.16005.354.camel@thinkpad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.4.7.10 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 ocaml:01 brent:98 writes:01 data:02 bagley:02 bagley:02 shootout:02 shootout:02 languages:03 doug:03 doug:03 debian:04 Gerd Stolpmann gerd-stolpmann.de> writes: -snip- > I think the shootout is not a good data source. There are definitely > some very poor Ocaml results there, so I'd guess the shootout got > recently more attention by enthusiasts of other languages, and the > current Ocaml programs there are not very good. (I remember Ocaml was #1 > at the shootout a few years ago, faster than C.) So maybe a good > opportunity to post better Ocaml solutions there? Even back in 2001, on Doug Bagley's website called "The Great Computer Language Shootout" Ocaml was not #1- http://web.archive.org/web/20010602051335/www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml Doug Bagley stopped updating his website in Fall 2001. Even back in 2004, when Brent Fulgham started his website using the same programs, OCaml was not #1 http://web.archive.org/web/20040717184911/shootout.alioth.debian.org/craps.php