Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler+ocaml <at> umh.ac.be> writes:

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> The question is why is C allowed to use
> an external library for managing its memory

I asked why you think C should not be allowed to use memory pools - you haven't
tried to answer that question.

If you think that C should not be allowed to use memory pools because they are
provided in an external library then I disagree - I think it's fine to show use
of popular external libraries.

Of course, a C program that just uses malloc is also shown.


> but — for this specific
> benchmark which is precisely about managing memory — OCaml is not
> authorized to make use of its very own library!

OCaml is authorized to make use of its very own library.

Just like all the other programming language implementations, for binary-trees,
OCaml is not authorized to tune the GC.