From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-01-12T10:34:22+09:00
Subject: Re: functional programming

Brian Candler wrote:

> 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.

Don't take Ed seriously.  You will find that he never posts any
Ruby code that he has written.

And he has already been taught that OCaml can be as fast as C:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/e2138
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