Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

igouy2:

--- Simon Brenner wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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this overall test is uselles for speed comparison. afair, there are only 2-3 programs whose speed isn't heavily depend on libraries. in DNA test, for example, Tcl (or PHP?) was leader just because it has better regexp library

On the regex-dna benchmark, I'll have to agree. It's unfortunate to have a benchmark so dependent on the set of libraries included in the distribution, and e.g. Text.Regex.PCRE kicks Text.Regex.Posix's behind in this benchmark - but we probably can't use it only because one's bundled and the other isn't. Maybe we could roll our own regexp engine for this specific benchmark though (for example, Text.Regex.TDFA is within 10% or something of PCRE and AFAIK pure Haskell - a customized and downsized version of that could probably be made quite competitive).

You could always suggest use of Text.Regex.PCRE, provide a program and instructions on how to install Text.Regex.PCRE on Ubuntu.

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With bytestrings, unboxed arrays, light-weight threads and other tricks, we can usually replace all those ugly low-level programs with nice high-level haskell ones ...

Go do!

All is in hand. Tim Newsham's uploaded a regex-pcre and regex-posix entry to the wiki, and I'm testing now on quad core. If it survives testing, we'll submit it to Isaac. -- Don