From: Jon Harrop <jon@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T13:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, don't write it in C++

Jon Harrop wrote:
>> Here are my 32-bit timings (language versions are the same):
>> 
>>         Compile  Run
>> C       0.126s    0.386s  gcc -O3 -Wall
>> OCaml2  0.089s    0.391s  ocamlopt
>> OCaml2  0.010s   10.111s  ocamlc
>> Java    1.615s   12.745s  javac
> 
> Here's a C++ implementation:
> 
> C++     0.652s    0.608s  g++ -O3 -Wall

For Java2 from the site and using Sun's Java 1.5 instead of GIJ 1.4.2
(d'oh!), I get:

Java    0.543s    0.711s  javac

That's a much more respectable running time although the compile time is
comparatively poor.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists