20 May
                
                    2008
                
            
            
                20 May
                
                '08
                
            
            
            
        
    
                8:40 a.m.
            
        Andrew Coppin wrote:
So all that bravado about Haskell enabling higher-level optimisations to produce a result faster than C is actually complete nonesense?
Nonsense? No. Something that actually exists? No. Haskell enables optimisations. Writing a SufficientlySmartCompiler ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler ) still requires work. Jules