From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T17:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in OCaml

Charles O Nutter wrote:
> I'd be interested in seeing all of these run without IO as well...that 
> was
> the big bottleneck for Java.

Can we just clear something up here. The Latin squares mini project was 
not plucked out of the air just to be a poster child for my first post. 
It was part of a project that I am working on and as such the program 
has to produce some output! It does not make any sense to optimise the 
program in any language if we are not going to produce any output. 
Otherwise I would go with this heavily optimised C version:

[peterhickman]$ cat latin.c
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        return 0;
}

This is an application, it has to produce output. Cease this willy 
waving otherwise you are saying "For performance, remove the output".