From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T07:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: functional programming

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> For example, OCaml generates code which is 
>> reputedly only half the speed of the equivalent C code.
> 
> Did you mean "twice the speed?" Is OCaml faster or slower than C? And 
> why?

I did mean half the speed, i.e. OCaml is slower.

OCaml is a high-level language, but code written in OCaml still manages 
to achieve ~50% of the speed of hand-written C. Given that C can be 
considered portable machine code, this is a pretty impressive 
achievement.
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