What point am I supposed to be getting here? Yup, it's a benchmark. F# was consistently slower than Java, but, consistently used less memory and fewer lines of code.
Are you saying this is good, or bad?
Well... most of the stats aren't that different but them I'm reminded that this is mono and its using significantly less memory than java. Mono has a really sloppy garbage collector.. what does that say about java's in this benchmark.
If this is supposed to be a real-world benchmark, wouldn't it make more sense to be running F# on the CLR?
How many sites doing F# development would actually be deploying on Mono?