From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T23:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in OCaml

The thing that was bothering me was "have I missed any?" Sure the 
results I had were correct but I was unsure if they were complete. For 
example the Perl permutation module and the Ruby one could perhaps share 
some libpermute.so that I was unaware of and therefore harbour the same 
error - this is not the case however. Or even be both developed from the 
same source. Paranoia I know but many libraries and modules are based on 
existing code rather than developed from scratch so bring subtle bugs 
with them. Like the one recently found in the binary search, see  
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html.

But given that there is no relationship between the Perl, Ruby and Ocaml 
versions I am sure that there will be no surprises.