Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Well, then it should also run on my Mac... Do you have any experience > with performance of numerical code under Mono, or, for that matter, > under .NET? I suspect that the JIT compilers were not written with > number crunching in mind, but perhaps I am wrong.
Actually, F# seems to be very fast for array-based floating-point calculations. From the timings I gave earlier in this thread, for example, it is between C++ and OCaml. F# (actually .NET) seems to be slower for GC intensive programs, like my ray tracer. I suspect this is because a concurrent GC is inherently slower. I haven't benchmarked this in detail but F# seems to be 2-4x slower than OCaml here. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/index.html?usenet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list