[Shootout-list] Re: OCaml fibonacci entry
Aaron Denney
wnoise@ofb.net
Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:37:51 +0000 (UTC)
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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