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  Re: Who says .NET is slow...?  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 20 Feb 2009 17:23:09
Message: <499f2d4d$1@news.povray.org>
>> Well, according to the Great Language Shooting, the Mono 
>> implementation of .NET is slower than several other languages. 
>> (*cough* Haskell *cough*) It depends on what you call "slow", of course.
> 
> The Microsoft implementation isn't listed nor would run on their Linux 
> server, obviously.  There's a fair amount of evidence that Microsoft's 
> F# is faster than OCaml, which is generally faster than GHC.  There's 
> indeed good evidence nowadays that good jit compilers produce code which 
> is as fast or faster than code produced by ahead-of-time traditional 
> compilers.

Well, you're possibly right. Difficult to see how to verify or refute 
those claims.

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