From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA12478 for caml-red; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:19:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA26703 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:08:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from p-mail1.cnet.fr ([192.144.74.31]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e8P988511465 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:08:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by p-biset.issy.cnet.fr with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:07:48 +0200 Received: from lat4153 (lat4153.lannion.cnet.fr [161.104.14.80]) by l-mhs1.lannion.cnet.fr with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id TFBTFZGD; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:06:29 +0200 Received: from lat4153 ([127.0.0.1] ident=monin) by lat4153 with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13dUEp-0001iv-00; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:07:51 +0200 From: Jean-Francois Monin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <14799.5607.152151.362830@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:07:51 +0200 (CEST) To: caml-list@inria.fr Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: ICFP programming contest: results In-Reply-To: <20000923233658A.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> References: <20000921091256.57192@pauillac.inria.fr> <20000923233658A.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Your web page will be of great interest. Could you also tell us to what extent the knowledge of the implementation of Ocaml was needed in order to get good performance ? --=20 Jean-Francois Monin, France Telecom R&D DTL/MSV, Tel +33 2 96 05 26 79 2 av. Pierre Marzin, 22307 Lannion, France Fax +33 2 96 05 39 45 --=20 Eijiro Sumii wrote : > Thanks for kind words, and sorry for having been silent so far -- we > thought it would be more fun to keep silence until the official > announcement, especially when people weren't aware of us.;) >=20 > I heard the 3rd place entry was 100 times faster than the 4th, and = the > 2nd (Xavier's) was 5.5 times faster than the 3rd, but the 1st (ours) > wasn't so much faster than the 2nd. Doesn't this mean Caml is a > _much_ better language than others---though the contest judge seemed > somewhat reluctant to say Caml is "a fine programming tool for many > applications" and "the programming tool of choice for discriminating > hackers"---or, at least, its developers are much better programmers > than others?:-) (Jerome was the main programmer in our team, and = his > coding was amazingly fast.) >=20 > By the way, we are going to make a web page to describe what we did = in > detail. We'll announce it in this list when it's ready. >=20 > // Eijiro Sumii (http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sumii/) > //=20 > // Ph.D. Student at Department of IS, University of Tokyo > // Visiting Scholar at Department of CIS, University of Pennsylvania >=20 > > From: Xavier Leroy > > Subject: ICFP programming contest: results > > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:12:56 +0200 > >=20 > > Here are the official results for the ICFP 2000 programming = contest: > ... > > Not a bad year for OCaml. And my personal congratulations to = J=E9r=F4me > > Vouillon and his friends for a truly outstanding performance! > >=20 > > - Xavier Leroy