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=none 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 7E1CEBB84 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:43:59 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtMDAJHho0jUnw4SjWdsb2JhbACCLo9RAQEBAQcHBgcTpAqBVQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,210,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="16118334" Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net ([212.159.14.18]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 14 Aug 2008 16:43:57 +0200 Received: from [90.198.246.64] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtpa (Exim) id 1KTe3H-0001YS-5s; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:43:47 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: Vincent Hanquez , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Haskell vs OCaml Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:44:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200808141457.47150.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20080814142140.GA30748@snarc.org> In-Reply-To: <20080814142140.GA30748@snarc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808141544.51307.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 78bfddc466138979b68ed353e822907a X-Spam: no; 0.00; haskell:01 ocaml:01 0100,:01 haskell:01 cvs:01 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 measurements:01 slower:02 python:03 languages:03 thu:05 anyway:05 On Thursday 14 August 2008 15:21:40 you wrote: > 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. Is that based upon any measurements? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e