[clean-list] Data intensive programming and Clean

[Isaac Gouy]

> From: "Groenouwe, C." <c.groenouwe at vu.nl>
>Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:57 AM

>A quick glance at the following benchmark, gave me the impression that Clean and Caml seem to perform best with regard to memory consumption:
>
>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
>Is that true?


Please note the caveats listed in the "Compare Memory-used for all the benchmarks" section of the Help page.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#comparememoryused



>Additional question: which functional languages exploits (hardware) parallelism running on a multi core CPU best? (Or more CPU's)? 

Clean is not listed in the benchmarks game 4-core measurements because the released compiler is not multi-threaded.

Note the "≈ CPU Load" column in the other measurement tables, for example -


http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ocaml&lang2=ghc#faster-programs-measurements