On: Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

[cmrdporcupine]

Does make me ponder how much work it would be to get a new SML runtime built up overtop of LLVM. Assuming someone hasn't done it already.

Ah, yeah, it's been worked on before, just found a paper: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/2020/ifl-smlnj-ll...

[GrumpySloth → cmrdporcupine]

MLTon has an LLVM backend which you can choose by passing a CLI flag. As always though, using LLVM makes the compilation slower.

[noloblo → GrumpySloth]

How different is haskell from sml