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Subject: speed of byte-compiled ocaml considered high
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 14:58:12 -0600
From: Lyn A Headley <laheadle@midway.uchicago.edu>
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dear camlfiends,

I have recently used ocaml to write a couple of text-munging
scripts.  One of them, which makes a few scans over a fairly large
file, seems to run really fast!  I was wondering if anyone has done
any benchmarks comparing ocaml and other text-processing languages
like perl.

Lyn