[MLton-user] MLton performance

[Alan Morgan]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:51:06 -0500 (EST), Matthew Fluet
<fluet@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> >  Runs in about 10 seconds on my (Dual Athlon, 512MB, Linux2.4) system.
> 
> In general, a 10 second program isn't quite long enough to make meaningful
> comparisons between SML/NJ and MLton; though, in this particular instance,
> it is easily explained.

Right and thanks for the explanation.  I figured it had to be
something like that.  I'm still not sure that I can explain my
original timing discrepancy, but at least now I know what it isn't.

Alan