On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:13, Daniel Andor wrote:

> Lemme try it out (10^6 elements):
> 
> ocamlc:
> rev rev_map version:
>  2 WALL ( 1.19 usr +  0.02 sys =  1.21 CPU)
> vanilla map:
>  7 WALL ( 6.50 usr +  0.09 sys =  6.59 CPU)
> 
> ocamlopt:
> rev rev_map version:
>  1 WALL ( 0.81 usr +  0.03 sys =  0.84 CPU)
> vanilla map:
>  2 WALL ( 2.45 usr +  0.02 sys =  2.47 CPU)
> 
> Wow, that was unexpected! 

The tail-rec version doesn't clobber the cache
with growing and shrinking stack -- you have
two areas of memory being accessed sequentially
instead of three .. (Ocaml allocator is sequential)

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