On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 23:05 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
On Sunday 15 July 2007 21:57:40 Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
OpenGL is mostly written in C, so most of the code will likely run the exact same bits. It's just an interface to a C library.
Benchmarking OpenGL is certainly of little to no interest. However, showing how easily OpenGL can be interfaced to is of huge interest to me. Functional languages tend to have very poor FFIs, so I for one would like to see whether or not non-trivial graphical programs can be written in Haskell.
I was amazed to find that Frag corrupts memory in 64-bit, for example. Why are there malloc calls in a Haskell program?!
Because Haskell has a very nice FFI and the Haskell philosophy is to try to do as much on the Haskell-side as possible.