[Shootout-list] Missing programs and score calculation (Was:

[skaller]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:22 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 08:23, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > Compare that with the Ocaml native code compiler .. which is=20
> > > lightning fast -- both because it is written in a high
> > > level language, and also because it is implementing one.
> >
> > gcc is so slow due to the fact that it reparses headers ad infinitum (no
> > precompiled headers) and because it starts a zillion different processes
> > per compilation unit (at least cpp,gcc and as)
> 
> That is Skaller's point: HLLs produce faster code because it is easier to 
> optimise them at a high level, e.g. by not "reparsing headers ad infinitum". 
> Comparing the performance of ocamlopt to gcc is a bad idea though - C is 
> effectively one of OCaml's intermediate representations.

How is that? Ocamlopt generates assembler.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>

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