Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bit streams programs in Haskell

It seems I have spoken too soon!

There is one infidelity in my implementation: the program writes the output once per iteration, and this IO is included in the measured time. Due to a few changes, this caveat no longer applies. As a result Haskell performs just a bit better. The code is still at http://cse.unl.edu/~sjanssen/huffman.hs. The old main is left for reference, renamed to main'.

Run time (in seconds) for 10 iterations: O'Caml: 35.9 Old Haskell: 25.6 New Haskell: 8.8 Spencer Janssen