Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why can't Haskell be faster?

bf3:

Are these benchmarks still up-to-date? When I started learning FP, I had to choose between Haskell and Clean, so I made a couple of little programs in both. GHC 6.6.1 with -O was faster in most cases, sometimes a lot faster... I don't have the source code anymore, but it was based on the book "The Haskell road to math & logic".

Could be in the better Haskell libraries? We only really have the shootout programs, which are very small.

However, the Clean compiler itself is really fast, which is nice, it reminds me to the feeling I had with Turbo Pascal under DOS :-) I find GHC rather slow in compilation. But that is another topic of course.

I find it comforting that GHC thinks so hard about my code. :) -- Don