Comparing speed between BetterOCaml, ocaml, ocamlc, ocamlopt and 5 other web apps!

[Naereen]

I think it's important to mention that using BetterOCaml in-browser toplevel does not mean your code will run very slowly!
It's only about 2x slower than native ocaml toplevel, which itself is only about 5-10x slower (on most reasonable programs) than the native binaries compiled using ocamlopt.

I used this sudoku.ml program, adapted from this Domical proof-of-concept notebook (see @louisabraham/domical).

I also added in a <details>...</details> results mentioning other (not well-known) platforms:

• using TryOCaml: 3.88 s (interpreted, in the browser);
• using Dominical = OCaml + Iodide in-browser notebook: 3.78 s (it uses a similar OCaml toplevel compiled using js_of_ocaml);
• using IOCaml-JS (full 4.02) in-browser notebook: 4.70 s;
• using Sketch.sh experiment ReasonML and OCaml interactive in-browser notebook: 3.69 s;
• using this ReasonML live programming tool: [Evaluation timed out!]

[Naereen]

Just to keep a local back-up: here is the sudoku.ml file for the tiny benchmark:
sudoku.ml.txt

[Naereen]

I used Firefox on purpose, and not Chrom(e|ium), as Firefox javascript engine seems to run the js_of_ocaml OCaml toplevel slower than its competitor Chrom(e|ium).