[Caml-list] Is OCaml fast?

2010-11-22 Thread Thanassis Tsiodras
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 -

Re: [Caml-list] Is OCaml fast?

2010-11-24 Thread Thanassis Tsiodras
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Vincent Aravantinos wrote: > may we know, after all this intense discussion, what is your feeling? Well... (ducks, wears helmet). Dr Jon Harrop communicated with me directly (two days ago)... and when I expressed my lack of faith after reading his "Rise and fall