[MLton-user] MLton installation on Mac OS X

[Matthew Fluet]

> Another question, though:  I put the text
>
>  print "Hello, world!\n";
>
> in the file foo.sml, and then ran
>
> $ time mlton foo.sml
>
> real    0m15.079s
> user    0m11.469s
> sys     0m2.188s
>
> Should I be surprised at how long it took?  I'm running Mac OS X
> 10.4.6 on a PowerBook G4.

As others have said, that isn't terribly unusual.  You can also try 
compiling with -verbose 1 or -verbose 2 to get timing statistics of the 
various compilation passes.