On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> But the question is, are they generating C code from Ocaml code
> and compiling it,
I don't think so. I think the Ocaml compiler compiles directly to
machine code. But what difference does it make, ultimately?
> this would explain the performance.
It might help to explain why it's faster than interpreted languages.
But C++ is a compiled language too, and Ocaml seemed to be
consistently faster than C++ in those benchmarks.
I don't think the picture is so simple any more, anyway.
Optimising JITs seem to be catching up...
.robin.
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