OCaml versus F# .NET fastest performance

Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	8.33	106,496	1097	32.25
OCaml #3	8.76	11,132	1017	34.99
OCaml #4	8.77	11,128	1011	35.06
F# .NET #5	9.75	111,368	912	38.19
OCaml #2	45.96	11,132	472	45.96
OCaml	51.66	11,132	523	51.65
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	5.02	108,192	1383	5.00
OCaml	6.81	11,148	1251	6.81
F# .NET #3	6.91	106,624	1617	6.90
F# .NET #2	7.28	108,408	1381	7.26
F# .NET #4	7.40	108,620	1290	7.38
F# .NET #5	7.47	108,388	1351	7.45
F# .NET		Bad Output
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
OCaml #2	5.32	11,148	377	5.32
F# .NET #4	1.60	110,572	732	5.86
F# .NET #2	1.63	109,184	853	5.90
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	3.83	140,068	933	14.86
F# .NET	4.08	140,580	877	15.88
F# .NET #5	4.09	139,916	897	15.90
OCaml #6	28.78	11,148	444	28.78
OCaml	7.56	11,148	717	30.12
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	0.99	105,584	905	0.98
F# .NET #4	1.39	106,688	874	1.39
OCaml #5	2.12	19,320	458	2.12
OCaml #7		Make Error
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
OCaml #3	2.47	548,820	647	4.20
F# .NET #6	2.45	1,131,324	611	5.76
F# .NET #7	4.66	1,325,080	599	6.52
OCaml #2	14.02	823,880	637	14.02
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
OCaml #6	3.34	201,908	1189	3.34
F# .NET #3	1.16	137,720	1350	4.13
F# .NET #4	1.29	201,344	1342	4.54
OCaml #3	4.67	11,136	1071	4.67
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	4.11	260,772	1907	12.92
F# .NET #2	4.54	272,540	1926	15.96
OCaml	45.59	338,320	886	45.59
OCaml #3	17.82	258,440	1833	45.96
OCaml #2	24.86	321,940	1239	57.36
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
OCaml	2.34	11,148	1368	5.58
OCaml #3	2.33	11,112	1356	6.06
OCaml #2	9.30	811,664	416	9.30
F# .NET #4		Timed Out
F# .NET #5		Timed Out
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
OCaml #5	7.96	216,716	461	7.96
OCaml #2	3.62	215,460	751	10.27
F# .NET #7	5.39	1,718,280	516	16.69
OCaml	OCaml native-code version 5.0.0
F# .NET	.NET SDK 7.0.102 Host Version: 7.0.2 Commit: d037e070eb <ServerGarbageCollection>true