From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@...68k.org>
Date: 2003-08-25T05:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:27:23AM +0900, Andreas Hauser wrote:

> FWIW, i tried some of the shoutout benchmarks
> and i have very different results.
> 
> For example, he claims ocaml to be faster than gcc in
> the Fibonacci test (0.18 vs. 0.24), while
> on any sytem that i tested C is much faster (e.g. 1.8 to 0.19).

on those systems I tried (x86, m68k) the ocaml version is faster.
The margin is small but I am still surprised something is faster
than gcc :)

Richard