[Caml-list] F-sharp (was: Executable size?)

[Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:26 pm, Karl Zilles wrote:
> John J Lee wrote:
> > Well, I guess they already have, in the sense that O'Caml has a .NET
> > implementation -- right?  Always assuming that implementation is more
> > than the publicity stunt that the Python one was, of course...
>
> You're referring to F#.  It appears to be more of a research project
> than a full fledged implementation:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.qe3mh18.1p1m8jk%40ifi.uio.no

Cc: Don Syme

I'm curious why F# (as I understood it), implements Caml from scratch instead 
of just changing the bytecode compiler in Caml a bit to suite its needs.

By the way, are there benchmarks comparing code produced by ocamlc, ocamlopt 
and F# (together with SML.NET and SML/NJ for that matter) on a variety of 
algorithm and numerics-intensive tasks?

IIRC, when .NET/C# just came out, there were claims that it was almost as fast 
as C.
-- 
Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>

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