7 Sep
2001
7 Sep
'01
12:42 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:
Finally, are we all in agreement that it would be a great thing if someone invented a Haskell-like language as good as Haskell at hiding resource usage when resource usage is unimportant, but that made it easier to control resource usage than Haskell does when resource usage is important?
Of course it's not just in functional languages that performance demands
can require rewriting shorter, more comprehensible code in less obvious
ways. (My favourite example of something so completely non-intuitive is
the Intel example from within a Sieve of Eratosthenes program that
for(i=0;i