Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why can't Haskell be faster?

goalieca:

So in a few years time when GHC has matured we can expect performance to be on par with current Clean? So Clean is a good approximation to peak performance?

The current Clean compiler, for micro benchmarks, seems to be rather good, yes. Any slowdown wrt. the same program in Clean could be considered a bug in GHC... And remember usually Haskell is competing against 'high level' languages like python for adoption, where we're 5-500x faster anyway... -- Don