]> >> Java has huge start up costs... >> Lies, damned lies, and cross-language benchmarks. > I think it is a legitimate tactic. > If your code can run in 100 milliseconds, I could > care less about performance. You're both right. Benchmarks give invaluable insight into specific problems. If the specific problem involves long-running processes then that's what we should be benchmarking: it doesn't matter what happened in the first second. If the specific problem involves starting a program hundreds-of-times a day to do a small computation then that's what we should be benchmarking: it doesn't matter what the performance was after millions of iterations. best wishes, Isaac __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners