Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

stephen.tetley:

2009/11/3 Andrew Coppin :

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As far as I can tell, Clean is to Haskell as C is to Pascal. I.e., Clean is notionally very similar to Haskell, but with lots of added clutter, complexity and general ugliness - but it's probably somehow more machine-efficient as a result.

(All of which makes the name "Clean" rather ironic, IMHO.)

Clean used to be considered faster than Haskell, though I don't know what the situation is now: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-October/033854.html

We've come a long way in 5 years. Haskell is almost always faster on the shootout now. And parallelism goes a long way to helping there: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=clean&box=1 Though this is also true on a single core: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=clean&box=1 It's just a lot closer. Clean continues to have a very small memory footprint. -- Don