I did consider strictness and that is why the execution time has come down from 16 seconds to 12 seconds! But I can't seem to find the issue anymore! 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:06 AM, KC <kc1956@gmail.com> wrote:

I haven't looked at the code much yet

But might want to consider strictness 😎

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On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 7:01 PM Awsaf Rahman, <awsafrahman1704@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone! 

I am trying to find out the execution time of mergesort for a list size of 1 million integers. I have done the same in Erlang as well and the execution time in Erlang was around 0.93 seconds. I have implemented the program in almost the same way in Haskell as well but for some reason the Haskell implementation is taking around 12 seconds which doesn't seem right. 

Here is the implementation in Haskell: 

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}

import Control.Exception

import Formatting

import Formatting.Clock

import System.Clock

import Control.DeepSeq

mergesort [] = []

mergesort [x] = [x]

mergesort xs = let (lhalf, rhalf) = splitAt (length xs `div` 2) xs

               in merge' (mergesort lhalf) (mergesort rhalf)

merge' lhalf rhalf = merge lhalf rhalf []

merge [] [] acc = reverse acc

merge [] y acc = reverse acc ++ y

merge x [] acc = reverse acc ++ x

merge (l:ls) (r:rs) acc

        | l < r = merge ls (r:rs) (l:acc)

        | otherwise = merge rs (l:ls) (r:acc)

toList :: String -> [Integer]

toList input = read ("[" ++ input ++ "]")

main = do

    file <- getLine

    contents <- readFile file

    let !unsortedlist = (toList contents)

    start <- getTime Monotonic

    evaluate(force (mergesort unsortedlist))

    end <- getTime Monotonic

    fprint (timeSpecs % "\n") start end


What am I doing wrong? 

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