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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: ICFP'00 programming contest
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> > You can see our entry at http://caml.inria.fr/icfp00-contest/,
> > including some cool test images.
> 
> You guys rule.

Thank you!

> It would be nice to have the computation times for those test images, 
> especially for those of us who won't be able to go to ICFP.

Good idea.  I added some timings to the Web page above.  Not being
familiar with the state of the art in ray tracing, we have no idea if
these are good or bad timings.  But from examination of the code
produced by ocamlopt, I can say that those floating-point
optimizations finally paid off...

- Xavier Leroy