My earlier post Four MLs (and a Python) listed a toy example program written in four languages in the ML family: Standard ML, OCaml, Yeti, and F♯. Perhaps unwisely, I measured and reported the runtimes for each version of this program when processing a test file on my Linux laptop. The figures I got were,… Continue reading SML and OCaml: So, why was the OCaml faster?
Month: May 2015
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My last post got an unprecedented amount of attention after appearing on the popular site Hacker News. It spent about 14 hours on the front page there and got almost 11,000 unique visitors that day — a fair way above my usual daily average, for this whole blog, of about a hundred. I combed through… Continue reading Feedback on “Four MLs (and a Python)”
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