[MLton-user] Java and MLton

[Chris Clearwater]

Brent Fulgham <bfulg@pacbell.net> writes:

> --- Raymond Racine <rracine@adelphia.net> wrote:
>> Used MLton in this year's ICFP.  Ant simulator
>> execution speed was
>> fantastic.
>> 
>
> It should have been!  Check out MLton's relative
> speed at:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org.

This is neat! I am very interested in seeing the performance of the
new languages and updated implementations. However something is very
suspicious about SML/NJ being faster than Ocaml :) A few things of
note include SML/NJ allocating 0 memory on word frequency and
executing 28x faster than gcc and lua heap sorting *instantly*.