I have read a lot of different places that ocaml is very fast, even faster than C, but it's always a stupid "yes-no I have no evidence" argument that doesn't expand anyone's knowledge. I have searched around the web and actual benchmarks I find, C always (edit: more searching = almost always actually) wins; am I looking in the wrong place or what?
Obviously specific languages will never be better in every possible situation, can anyone show me some places where ocaml is faster (source provided please, I am ocaml literate), or give theoretical arguments about why ocaml should be faster in situation X?