From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T14:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: R (was: adding overload to ruby)

Christian Szegedy <szegedy@t-online.de> writes:

> Jason Voegele wrote:
> > Christian Szegedy wrote:
> >
> 
> >> I like ocaml and I am trying to use it, but:
> >>
> >> 1) It is considerably less concise than Ruby.
> >>
> >> 2) It is at least 2x slower than optimized C code, and it is even
> >>    slower in Object oriented mode.
> > I realize that such benchmarks must be taken with a large grain of
> > salt, but Doug Bagley's Language Shootout seems to refute those two
> > points:
> 
> > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml?xcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1
> 
> > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml
> >
> 
> 
> I was quite biased *for* ocaml because of those benchmarks.
Are you kidding, the tests are a playground for C programs.
> 
> Reading the ocaml mailing list made the impression that the developers
> of ocamls admit a significant slodown compared to optimized C-code.
Why don't you show up this arguments in c.l.f?

Friedrich