Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

hughperkins:

On 8/10/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <[1]dons@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

[2]http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?te st=nsievebits&lang=all The GHC-compiled entry comes in at 1.2x C++, which I'm quite happy with. Strangely, despite your assertions, the C# entry lags well down the list.

Yeah, you somehow managed to slip around their rules without them noticing ;-) They specify to use a bit array, but you dont ;-) Bit arrays are optimal for space, but can be really slow.

It's using bit arrays. -- Don