29 Dec
2008
29 Dec
'08
11:28 p.m.
In the short term, yes. But it's my opinion that most anything that's a win for ease of modification is a win for performance in the long run, if it gets more people writing code.
Also agreed, in theory. The language is definitely also in line with this philosophy. In practice, though, it's also nice for low level stuff to be fast right now. However, I expect that if the haskell RTS gets implemented it'll be a switch at least until it's as fast or faster than the C version, so it's all good. Anyway, thanks for the clarification on the STM performance. I guess it means I can't brag too much about pure performance, but there's plenty else to brag about.