SML numerical benchmark and MLton

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

Hi Stephen,

I just wanted to drop you a note saying that the new version
of SMLapl is out. Finally I had time to revise the code and
find what was making SML/NJ be so slow and it was just two
stupid complex numbers -- I had to inline the code myself.

The new code and the new benchmarks are at the same place

	http://www.arrakis.es/~worm/smlapl.tgz

Now SML/NJ-compiled code is 1.7 times slower than
MLton. Also, measures now take place over several iterations
and so the GC might be important --but that's more realistic
anyway.

Regards

	Juanjo