Re: [Haskell-cafe] OCaml list sees abysmal Language Shootout results

Keith Wansbrough writes:

I can't believe that a simple "wc" implementation should be 570 times slower in Haskell than OCaml - could someone investigate and fix the test?

With code like this, I'm not surprised! main = do file <- getContents putStrLn $ show (length $ lines file) ++ " " ++ show (length $ words file) ++ " " ++ show (length file) Space-leak or what? Regards, Malcolm