s.clover:
In some spare time over the holidays I cooked up three shootout entries, for Fasta, the Meteor Contest, and Reverse Complement. I
Yay!
First up is the meteor-contest entry.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? test=meteor&lang=ghc&id=5
This is the clear win of the bunch, with significantly improved time thanks to its translation of the better algorithm from Clean.
Well done! Though looks like we'll have to follow the C++ implementation to be really competitive.
Next is reverse-complement.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? test=revcomp&lang=ghc&id=3
Very good. I'm glad someone looked at that, since the old code was moderately naive (first bytestring effort).
Finally, there's fasta.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? test=fasta&lang=ghc&id=2
Yeah, we should do something better here. Hmm.
p.s. It looks like they've depreciated chameneos in favor of a new version, chameneos-redux. As this was one of the places Haskell really rocked the competition, it would probably be worth updating
Definitely. I note also we're beating Erlang on the new thread-ring benchmark too, http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=threadring&lang=all
the Haskell entry for the new benchmark. Also, the n-bodies benchmark seems like another that could be much improved.
Yeah, that's a hard one. -- Don