> 
> You mean it might be possible to recover the performance of C from numerical 
> code with high-level abstractions? Yes. Indeed, I would like to see this 
> done. However, I've never heard of an implementation of any language that can 
> do this.
> 

That's what MLTon tries to do ... I do not know how much they succeed, but monomorphisation and
defunctorization shoud do the job better than OCaml (look at the specific numerical benchmark for
MLTon ?)


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