From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...127.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-07-25T09:13:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18485] Re: Ruby vs. Objective Caml

adpx <panakal@bigfoot.com> wrote:
:> Can you back this one up?  It is true that pure functionals allow for some
:> impressive global optimizations, but I'm skeptical of a 'many times faster
:> than C' claim.  C is just one layer up from assembler.

: Syntax aside I think he meant that 'it is often as fast as straight C'

Once again, I demonstrate that Americans (such as myself) can't read
English.

:)

I must have had my eisegesis glasses on.  OTOH, if someone said
'average OCaml programs run several times faster than average C programs',
I would sit down and listen, because a certain language's constructs may
force a programmer into a design that would not be taken by an average
imperative programmer, and the performance difference could be
substantial.