>I think the constant creation of new arrays to hold intermediate results
>(i.e., immutable data) is costing too much. Many of the intermediate values
>could be overwritten in place and save a lot of time.
>... of course... don't ask how long it took to write all this stuff in the
>inner loops of the convolution in C, nor how long it took to debug that
>stuff.... And immutable data definitely helps to get the code correct. OCaml
>still rules!

I think I'm missing something.  The ocaml loops allocate memory for temps, but the C loops reuse storage?  Did you do a version for ocaml that's got the same level of optimizations as the C version (not allocating, etc.)?

If the code's not to big, could you post it?

Chris


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