Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

Markus E L

2007-08-27, 8:05 pm

Jon Harrop wrote:

> Markus E L wrote:
>
> To quantify this:
>
> Fork: 1cs
> Spawn thread: 1ms
> Lock: 1us

Lock? Can you please explain? Why is that here? Which 'lock' are we
talking about and why is that relevant?

> Java and .NET are ~5x slower at allocation-intensive programs than OCaml.

Hm hm hm. That might be or might not be. I'm suspending judgement
until I've seen numbers.

Regards -- Markus

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