Re: [Haskell-cafe] In for a penny, in for a pound.

bertram.felgenhauer:

The flop machinery can still be made faster, stealing an idea from the icc entry (namely, treating the first entry separately):

Great. This pushes the pure version up a notch. I've updated the wiki, showing how the code has progressed: Author Time in seconds (N=10) Original entry: > 2 minutes Sebastian Sylvan: 15.4 Kimberley Burchett: 7.2 Cale Gibbard: 5.8 Bertram Felgenhauer: 4.7 Original impure 2.1 Fastest pure 1.8 Fastest impure 1.4 And comparison with the C version: C gcc 1.35 C gcc -O2 0.5 -- Don