From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4111BB84 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:20:11 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAMTbo0jUVZsV/2dsb2JhbAC2MYFV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,210,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="16117691" Received: from cerberus.snarc.org ([212.85.155.21]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 14 Aug 2008 16:20:11 +0200 Received: by cerberus.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 81500129E8; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:21:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:21:40 +0100 From: Vincent Hanquez To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Haskell vs OCaml Message-ID: <20080814142140.GA30748@snarc.org> References: <527cf6bc0808140450w3182b14n60764d3862b9080f@mail.gmail.com> <200808141457.47150.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808141457.47150.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam: no; 0.00; haskell:01 ocaml:01 0100,:01 haskell:01 cvs:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 slower:02 python:03 python:03 languages:03 thu:05 anyway:05 vincent:07 vincent:07 On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:57:47PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > > and Haskell is faster than most (scripting) languages used these days > > anyway). > > Despite being written in Python, Mercurial is orders of magnitude faster than > Darcs. (wow, very funny) by the same stupid thinking process: Despite being written in C, CVS is orders of magnitude slower than mercurial. obviously now, python is faster than C. -- Vincent