"Scott J."
I don't think I have got a fair answer to my questions regarding these (silly?) benchmarks. I cannot write the programs with the unboxed "things", but I have both the Ocaml compiler and the latest Glasgow compiler installed on my windows XP machine. So, if someone sends the programs I'll type it in and let you know these results. I don't want to be impolite : the fact that I am on this list proves that I am seriously interested in the elegance of Haskell. But I am searching a language to program in it: I think e.g. to a front end of the Lout typesetting program. Also I have the impression that such fancy things as HOpenGL are not for windows because of the GTK bindings.
HOpenGL runs under windows. The GTK+ binding will too after it has been moved over to track GTK+ 2.0.
It seems that I have to move to a Linux OS.
I think that this is generally a very advisable thing to do :-) Cheers, Manuel