Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > I have concerns about speed in FP, however, and I see more problems > that can be more easily cast as OO than FP. The issue of speed has come up several times in this thread, and frankly I don't understand why. OCaml programs perform within 10% the performance of comparable C programs. Even grand daddy LISP with all of its impurities stands up quite well against C, let alone OO. Sure, some of the more cutting edge languages haven't been optimized as much, but even they do very well for a lot of problems. Erlang's model is to actually encourage the use of C for computationally intensive bits of the code path and use Erlang for the IO stuff, which seems to work out well for those who employ it. What exactly is the basis for this concern?
--Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
