Maybe he hasn't discovered ocamlopt yet.

Mike

> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:32:43 +0100
> From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:29:42PM -0800, Karl Zilles wrote:
> > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/14/2258219
> [...]
> 
> 
> Well, I used the code that is provided there.
> And it runs on my computer not 16 minutes...
> 
> 
> =====================
> (...)
> 4 by 10
> 10 empty cells:
> XXOX
> OXXX
> XXXO
> XOXX
> XXXO
> OXXX
> XXOX
> OXXX
> XXXO
> XOXX
> 
> 
> real    0m10.677s
> user    0m9.440s
> sys     0m0.040s
> =====================
> (with ocamlc)
> 
> =====================
> real    0m7.583s
> user    0m6.390s
> sys     0m0.020s
>  (with ocamlopt)
> =====================
> 
> 
> So the whole discussion is stiupid...
> 
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
>