[MLton-user] Java and MLton

[Brent A. Fulgham]

Chris Clearwater wrote:

>Brent Fulgham <bfulg@pacbell.net> writes:
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>>--- Raymond Racine <rracine@adelphia.net> wrote:
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>>>Used MLton in this year's ICFP.  Ant simulator
>>>execution speed was
>>>fantastic.
>>>
>>>      
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>>It should have been!  Check out MLton's relative
>>speed at:
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>>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org.
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>This is neat! I am very interested in seeing the performance of the
>new languages and updated implementations. However something is very
>suspicious about SML/NJ being faster than Ocaml :) A few things of
>note include SML/NJ allocating 0 memory on word frequency and
>executing 28x faster than gcc and lua heap sorting *instantly*.
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Yes -- you found some bad runs!  I've corrected these problems (and some 
others) and will be updating the site momentarily.

-Brent