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No, that won't happen, but a lot of the code that you write in a functional language can be optimized far better than another language, because the compiler has
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
No, that won't happen, but a lot of the code that you write in a functional language can be optimized far better than another language, because the compiler has more, stronger guarantees about your code.
- ethan_g 10y agoThere's some truth to this, but "can be optimized" is not the same as "there exists a compiler that optimizes". Your statement gets repeated a lot (and similarly about the JVM: it has run-time information that compilers don't have, so can optimize better), and yet C++ and Fortran continue to come out on top.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIndeed, because C++ and Fortran get the money and time, and they're closer to the metal to begin with. Also, C++'s "Nasal Demons on UB" problem helps a lot. But yes, OCaml is quite fast, and probably could be faster. Does it really beat C++ in all contexts? Probably not, but it's still pretty fast.