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		scardine on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mirage v2.0: a recap of the new features About the "Python to OCaml", the result is only 10% faster? Nothing wrong with that but some of the most frequent arguments against Python are related to execution speed, I would expect a bigger difference here.

m0th87 on July 22, 2014 [–]

10x faster*

FTA: "The new code is a similar length (slightly shorter), runs around 10x faster, and is statically type checked."

scardine on July 24, 2014 | [–]

Ouch, I need to schedule an optician to check my glasses prescription. %-)

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