Re: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

Don Stewart ha scritto:

Thanks to those guys who've submitted parallel programs to the language benchmarks game, we're climbing up the rankings, now in 3rd, and ahead of C :)

This is cheating, IMHO. Some test comparisons are unfair. The first problem is with the thread-ring benchmark. Haskell uses the "concurrent Haskell" extension, but all other programs (with some exceptions) uses OS threads. This is unfair, as an example a C program can make use of the GNU threads library, for user space threads), but there is no such program. If I remove the thread-ring bench, then Haskell goes sixth, after Java and OCaml. With parallel programs it is the same: other languages does not have a parallel version.

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Manlio Perillo