Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

hughperkins:

Now, I did have kindof a shootout thread with Don and Sebastien, calculating prime numbers, where Don managed to get to within an order of magnitude of C# performance (I think he got to about 70-80% of C# performance, cool!) ->

Despite my better judgement, I'll just point out that you stopped measuring the programs midway through. However, the shootout guys didn't, and they publish the results here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nsievebits&lang=all The GHC-compiled entry comes in at 1.2x C++, which I'm quite happy with. Strangely, despite your assertions, the C# entry lags well down the list. -- Don