On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Brian Hurt wrote:

> Attached is some microbenchmarking code I just whomped together.  It gives
> both C and Ocaml timings on tight loops of functions calls.  The results:
>
> My conclusions:
>
> - Despite my best efforts, ocaml inlined (and removed) the call to foo.
> In general this is good, but it did defeat my efforts to time how long a
> direct function call took.  For some reason it didn't also eliminate the
> for loops.  If I had to guess, Ocaml's call to a known function is about
> the same speed as C's.

Make foo recursive (as in 'let rec foo' vs 'let foo'), OCaml will not
inline it.

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