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 VAA23012 for caml-red; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:25:57 +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 KAA11210 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:55:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8Q8tM510696; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:55:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA29084; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:55:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20000926105521.51644@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:55:21 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Jean-Francois Monin , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: ICFP programming contest: results References: <20000921091256.57192@pauillac.inria.fr> <20000923233658A.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> <14799.5607.152151.362830@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: <14799.5607.152151.362830@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Jean-Francois Monin on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:07:51AM +0200 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr > Could you also tell us to what extent the knowledge of the > implementation of Ocaml was needed in order to get good performance ? The only important thing to know was that a record with three float fields is more efficient than a triple of floats. Actually, all you needed to know (and much more) about the OCaml performance model for the contest is documented in the OCaml "Questions and answers" pages, especially http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/speed.html and http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/numerical.html - Xavier Leroy