Adam wrote > "It's fast. Not as fast as C, but probably less than 3x slower. Since most other high-level languages are an order of magnitude slower than C, this is a big, big difference.*
Seems like you have plucked "probably less than 3x slower" out of thin air!
(And you need to say what you mean by "high-level languages" - Java?)
James wrote > "I'll point you to the Shootout, which is admittedly misleading."
> OCaml consistently kicks the collective butts...
Strange that you compared OCaml to the slower Java -client instead of Java -server [Java -server](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ocaml&lang2=java)
Strange not to compare OCaml with other compiled languages rather than with interpreted languages like Python, Perl and Ruby.