On 2005-04-28, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>
> I just knocked up a little ray tracer in OCaml to test its viability for the 
> shootout:
>
>   http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/
>
> Here, it traces a 768^2 image of 66,430 spheres in 22.51s on a 1.2GHz 
> Athlon-Thunderbird and in 7.24s on a 1.8GHz Athlon 64.
>
> I've boiled it down to 94 LOC and posted it to the shootout mailing list.

Re:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/comparison.html

Interesting results, but it's kind of unfair to leave optimisation turned
off for g++! What kind of results do you get with, say, -O3 -ffast-math?

Cheers,

Julian