I'm sort of jumping into this conversation late, and I'm definitely a
Haskell newbie, but I have to wonder if the speed differences don't have
something to do with the C arguments passing conventions. I know there's
some rule that says if your first couple args are int's to pass them in the
CPU registers which might explain some of the speed boost for putting them
first. I need to go dig through my x86 reference manuals to get the exact
rules though.
-R. Kyle Murphy
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Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 22:40, MAN
A little something I should have done before:
Just compiled Don's C code (modified to my 32 bit laptop) with all flavors of precision. All the timings were similar:
~$ gcc bigmean.c -o bgC ~$ chmod +x bgC ~$ ./bgC 1000000000 ~$ time ./bgC 1000000000 500000000.067109
real 0m8.585s user 0m8.553s sys 0m0.000s
So the time's I've been getting are approximating C speed quite well. There's still the difference between recursive and fusion code that haven't been able to gap...
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