2007/1/18, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>:
> Either function calls are just that stupidly efficient, or there's some
> optimization still going on. I'm guessing the second.

well, here, the application are termial application that are optimized.

One should probably better do something like :
let f x =
  x + 100
let call_f () = 1 + (f 1)

let o = object
  method f_o x = x + 100
end
let call_o () = 1 + (o#f_o 1)

.... to force a non terminal application.