On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> In both cases, OCaml will not only give you lower performance than
> say C, Fortran or assembly, but the OCaml code will not be
> cleaner nor easier to write than the C or Fortran code.

 Btw., many of the numerical algorithms can be very well explained
in Caml when Fortran code is not readable at all.

 So, it's good for number crunching even when its efficiency
is much more poor then Fortran or C.


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