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 E1F77BBAF for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:16:29 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AicFALbl7ExQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACBVpMojgYVAQEWIiKIK6Ymh0WJCYVHBIpg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,249,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="80144706" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2010 19:16:29 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PLJtL-0005sQ-Pe for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:16:27 +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 ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:16:27 +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 ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:16:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Isaac Gouy Subject: Re: Is OCaml fast? Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 haskell:01 writes:01 bagley:02 bagley:02 slower:02 shootout:02 shootout:02 languages:03 doug:03 doug:03 debian:04 benchmarks:07 suggested:07 Thanassis Tsiodras gmail.com> writes: -snip- > However, when I actually went to the Language Shootout page suggested > in the article, I found out that OCaml is not 2nd, it is 13th, behind > languages like Haskell and C#... > (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php) You've noted the rank of OCaml (2nd and then 13th) Can the rank position of OCaml change without the performance of the fastest programs or the OCaml programs changing? Can rank position in some list indicate how much faster or slower OCaml may be than the fastest language implementation? Is the rank position of OCaml stated on that old Doug Bagley scorecard? http://web.archive.org/web/20010602051335/www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml Is the rank position of OCaml stated on the current benchmarks game page you linked-to?