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Is OCaml fast?
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Date: | 2010-11-22 (13:21) |
From: | Thanassis Tsiodras <ttsiodras@g...> |
Subject: | Is OCaml fast? |
I apologize beforehand if this is not the forum to ask. I am on the fence about whether to learn OCaml or not, and while reading an article called "Why OCaml" (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/Ocaml/why_ocaml.html), I saw that OCaml was praised for the speed of the executables it generates - and was referred to, speed-wise, as "second to none", except C and C++. However, when I actually went to the Language Shootout page suggested in the article, I found out that OCaml is not 2nd, it is 13th, behind languages like Haskell and C#... (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php) Is it just hype, then? Or am I missing something? -- What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. (Old Epitaph)