Re: [Haskell-cafe] Speed comparison?

Daniel Carrera wrote:

Hi all,

Thank you for all the information on my previous question. I learned a lot, and good pointers to more info.

My next question is about speed. How fast would you consider Haskell? (say, for computational work). How would you compare it to C, Python and Ruby?

I started a small project in Ruby some time ago. It involved a bit of parsing and moving quite large binary data around. In Ruby speed was real problem so I looked for another language and ended up with... Haskell :) Speed of GHC compiled programs is ok for me, but if you need handling of binaries FFI is your very good friend! I cannot say anything about OCaml or Python, though. -- Gracjan