Re: [Haskell-beginners] Re: Is Haskell for me?

On Friday 06 November 2009 09:52:48 am Cory Knapp wrote:

Idiomatic Haskell won't be as fast as idiomatic C++, but it will blow Python away.

Based on the little bit of stuff I've done, I think I'd characterize it this way: C++ will be maybe twice as fast as Haskell. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less, depending on a lot of details. For heavy computation, Python will be a couple orders of magnitude slower than both. IOW, Haskell is slower than C++ but it's in the same ballpark. Would anyone disagree? Shawn.