18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
5:36 a.m.
"Simon Peyton-Jones"
| > I am currently evaluating different languages for implementing an | > application which will have to manipulate large graphs representing | > the structure of programs and their evolution. | | > Speed is in fact a crucial criterium for the language choice.
My biased impression is that raw speed is seldom the determining factor in language choice.
Indeed. And I would add that, if the application's algorithms turn out to be sufficiently lazy, then using Haskell /could/ end up being /more/ space-efficient than alternative languages, which would be a big win if the data-structures being manipulated are very large. Regards, Malcolm