Hello Robin, Saturday, December 15, 2007, 9:54:43 PM, you wrote:
you may believe in what you want. i prefer to say about real situation. if it will be possible to quickly write good Haskell compiler, it was be written many years ago
No-one is writing a commercial Haskell compiler yet (although there is at least one commercial Haskell-like language). What I mean is, the amount of "commercial-oriented" funding spent on GHC (as opposed to the "research-oriented" funding spent by Microsoft Research and various research bodies) is, as far as I know, zero. Incentives matter. If there were a commercial Haskell compiler, maybe we would see faster progress.
yes, it's one of my points. among complexity of generating efficient code for high-level language, there are just too small resources spent here compared to icc/gcc/msvc. i don't think that good Haskell compiler (for simple loops) is impossible, i just don't see chances to get it in reality -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com