Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why can't Haskell be faster?

On 10/31/07, Paulo J. Matos wrote:

Hello all,

I, along with some friends, have been looking to Haskell lately. I'm very happy with Haskell as a language, however, a friend sent me the link: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/

Careful: it's worse than you think. Many of the solutions to the shootout test are using "imperative" Haskell. "Real" "functional" Haskell performs significantly slower. (Orders of magnitude)