Daniel Carrera
My next question is about speed. How fast would you consider Haskell? (say, for computational work). How would you compare it to C, Python and Ruby?
I suggest C, Python and Ruby as a basis of comparison because:
I suggest adding OCaml, because it's similar to Haskell, and because OCaml has a good implementation while Python and Ruby have only slow implementations, and thus being faster than them is not impressive. The OCaml compiler usually generates faster code than GHC, sometimes slower.
Furthermore, the Haskell page says that ghc produces fast programs. So I would guess that Haskell is faster than Python, but not as fast as C.
Would that be correct?
Usually yes. (Python is fast when most of the work is done by libraries written in C. C is slow when dynamic memory allocation or threads are involved.) -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/