Cool! Thanks for doing this. I guess GHC is fast because it's implementing lightweight threads inside a single OS thread. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Josef Svenningsson [mailto:josefs@cs.chalmers.se] | Sent: 28 February 2001 09:47 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Lightningspeed haskell | | | Hi all. | | Some days ago someone posted this url: | http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ | | which is a page benchmarking a number of different languages and | compilers where ghc is one of them. Some benchmarks lacked a haskell | versions (and some still do) and so I decided to fill in some | of the gaps. | | One benchmark turned out to give pretty remarkable results. It's the | producer/consumer benchmark. I suggest you all take a look at it. The | haskell version is six (SIX!!!) times faster than the c version. Hey, | what's going on here? I would really like to hear some | comments from our | dear implementors. | | It should be noted that synchronisation is achieved by using | slightly different kinds of primitives. But still... six times... | | I lift my hat of for the ghc-implementors. | | /Josef | | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users |