I am happy to announce fundata1 -- the largest-ever program per RAM allocation in Haskell, originally implemented in Clojure and then OCaml and Haskell for social network modeling. http://github.com/alexy/fundata1 It has now become the first large-scale social networking benchmark with a real dynamic social graph built from the actual Twitter gardenhose, with the data OK'd by Twitter and supplied along with the benchmark. I wrote three reference implementations, all on github as well. Clojure and OCaml are quite basic, while Haskell community had a chance to optimize its data structures and in fact fix a GC integer overflow while working on it. You're welcome to fork and improve all of these implementations, and supply others! There's a Google Group, http://groups.google.com/group/fundata/ to discuss the shootout. There's also a blog about it and other functional things at http://functional.tv/ Let the fun begin! -- Alexy Khrabrov firstname.lastnameATgmaildotcom