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

[Jon Harrop]

On Friday 16 September 2005 17:02, skaller wrote:
> > 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.

Not literally, no. As C forces the programmer to litter code with unnecessary 
type declarations, it resembles a typed lambda tree (albeit without any 
lambdas!).

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