Here, the obligatory reference to the Shootout:

The two string manipulation benchmarks are
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=regexdna&lang=all
(Not quite as much string manipulation as Regexps, OCaml is among the
best here, but Python is about 2x faster -- I've tried improving it with
PCRE but the final result is not as fast as with Str)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all
(Not quite as much string manipulation as outputting strings, OCaml is
still among the best here, and Python is about 25x slower)

Fwiw.

Cheers,
 David


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:05 +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 08:21 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > skaller wrote:
> 
> > While I agree that yes, it is possible to write slow code in Ocaml
> > (or any other language), I suspect that idiomatic Ocaml string handling
> > compiled to a binary is just as fast if not faster than Java/Perl/Python/
> > Ruby/PHP/whatever.
> 
> Fraid not. Python eats Ocaml alive. Python: