On 11/10/06, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl> wrote:
Haskell suddenly dropped several places in the overall socre, when
size measurement changed from line-count to number-of-bytes after gzipping. Maybe it's worth it, to study why this is; Haskell
the programs
are often much more compact then programs in other languages, but after gzipping, other languages do much better. One reason I can think of, is that for very short programs, the import statements weigh heavily.
Before this gets out-of-hand, my memory is certainly fallible but as I recall Haskell /did not/ drop several places because size measurement changed from line-count to gzip byte-count. 1) Check the webpage that Don Stewart cached and note the values for the memory use and code-lines multipliers, and note the values for the benchmark weights http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/data/haskell_1.html Now go to the computer language shootout website and note the multipliers and benchmark weights. 2) Some Haskell programs were pushed into 'interesting alternative implementations' because they'd strayed so far from the spirit of the benchmark. (It takes a while for people to notice and complain, but eventually they do.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com