Hi all, i did some postings around the end of october about the comparison of the three named language. Well, now (after some forced breaks for other things to do & after overcoming my missing C++ skills) i have made a new comparison based on further financial calculations. More precisely about refunding loans (that's how banks calculate how much money they can earn with certitude if you take up a loan to some conditions). In short, the results are the following on test system (Pentium 3, 700 Mhz, 384 MB ram, Win2k). I tested: 1. cygwin 1.5.5-1 c++ with following flags: -O3 -ffast-math -foptimize-register-move -march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse 2. Java SDK 1.4.2_01 server VM 3. ghc 6.0.1 with following flags: -O2 -fglasgow-exts -fexcess-precision -optc-march=pentium3 -optc-mfpmath=sse the runtime for a set of 100 tests with different inputs where: 1. 751 ms 2. 932 ms (factor 1.24) 3. 3074 ms (factor 4.09) most interesting that haskell/ghc did better this time than last time, where i compared simpler calculations - or let's say more ``numerical'' calculations that wheren't based on much data structures. I will be off the office for a week, then i will test the .Net 2003 C++ compiler. Regarding these results, the usage of Haskell is quite promising. Did i allready say that i took about 10 times longer to write the (&"%&"$%&!!) C++ code than i took for Haskell code? Regards, Andreas Schroeder