[Shootout-list] Re: OCaml fibonacci entry

[Aaron Denney]

On 2004-10-27, Peter Hinely <phinely@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> And now for a question: It was my understanding that some of the
> functional languages cache the result of a function call for a given
> argument(s).  If so, then Fibonacci/Ackermann for those functional
> languages are fundamentally different than the same benchmarks in other
> languages, right?  Has this topic been discussed before on the shootout
> list?

None I'm aware of does it automatically, it's just incredibly easy to do
so.

> One could conceivably cache the results by hand in other languages.  Is
> that allowed?

No.

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Aaron Denney
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