[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell vs Ruby as a scripting language

Hi Simon,

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Yhc can happily compile code and run it. You'll probably pay a factor of 2-8 times slower than GHC, depending on what the code does.

Benchmarks please! Let's see some comparisons on the nofib suite. If there's a factor of 2 or less between GHC -O2 and YHC for any of the nofib programs, I'll eat my keyboard for lunch :-)

I remember having some benchmark where Yhc was only twice as slow as GHC - possibly without -O2 (or even -O). Can't remember what, but I was slightly surprised to see it. I will try and get some Yhc vs GHC benchmarks at some point. We are also working on an optimiser for Yhc, and a C backend, so does the keyboard eating offer still encompass that version of Yhc? :) Thanks Neil