Performance of Ocaml's bytecode is slower than F#?  Really?

~~ Robert.

-----Original Message-----
From: skaller [mailto:skaller@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:54 AM
To: Robert Fischer
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Interactive technical computing


On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 07:33 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote:
> >> After all, Java and C# aren't intended to be used like that, yet they
> >> certainly have wide-spread adoption.
> >
> > They don't make binary shared libraries
> > because the architecture is a virtual machine driven by
> > bytecode .. they DO make dynamically linkable bytecode
> > libraries.
> >
> As long as you play within the bounds of their VM.  This is no different than Ocaml.

Performance is different :) That's why I use Ocaml native code
exclusively, which doesn't support dynamic loading (yet :)

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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