I have to say, after posting it and rethinking about, that I believe he 
missed the point the poster wanted to say:  that higher abstractions 
like recursion and getting away from lowlevel machinery do indeed incur 
in a cost.

He correctly identifies unboxing and variable capture as extras not 
present in the C++ code but that was precisely the point of the author 
-- "The price of abstraction".  By making OCaml behave the same as C++, 
you can indeed maxout performance, but that was not the point... yes, 
Warp, I see what you mean about the dumbing down of the C++ code.

In any case, although he went after C++, I was more annoyed at seeing 
another higher-level language with high level constructs, Scala on the 
JVM, outpacing OCaml.  That's what really stroke me as odd.

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