I can confirm that old code-snippets were removed (and that both faster solutions and environment variable tweaks were rejected).

On Nov 22, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Oliver Bandel wrote:

> Zitat von "Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>:
> [...]
>> (I remember Ocaml was #1
>> at the shootout a few years ago, faster than C.) So maybe a good
>> opportunity to post better Ocaml solutions there?
> [...]
> 
> Yes I also remember that.
> I hope that the new OCaml compilers did not
> make OCaml lessperformance by enhancing other features.
> 
> And I don't realy think so.
> 
> But were the old code-snippets emoved, or what was going on,
> that OCaml degraded that much?
>