From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA15641; Thu, 1 May 2003 21:14:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 VAA17702 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 21:14:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eposta.kablonet.com.tr ([62.248.102.66]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h41JEJH02098 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 21:14:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 31895 invoked by uid 0); 1 May 2003 19:21:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 195.174.169.185) (exa@kablonet.com.tr@195.174.169.185) by 0 with SMTP; 1 May 2003 19:21:52 -0000 From: Eray Ozkural Reply-To: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Organization: Bilkent University CS Dept. To: Lex Stein , Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] comparison with C performance Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 22:13:45 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305012213.45484.exa@kablonet.com.tr> X-Spam: no; 0.00; eray:01 ozkural:01 caml-list:01 stein:01 bdbfs:01 slower:01 slowness:01 advisor:99 erayo:01 bilkent:01 ankara:01 kde:01 malfunction:01 ariza:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thursday 01 May 2003 20:29, Lex Stein wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago I built an NFS server in OCaml (BDBFS) and the performance > stunk. It was 10x slower than the BSD in-kernel NFS server for metadata > operations. There was some speculation about what was causing this > slowness. It could have been a number of things. So in order for my > Advisor to let me continue programming in OCaml, I set out to show that it > wasn't due to the choice of OCaml. Too bad you sucked at writing nfs servers ;) Don't worry system-level stuff can get frustrating and there are always a stack of architectural issues that one must be wary of. Happy hacking, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners