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

Hi Simon

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 :-)

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/bench.results Test: pidigits (lazy, arbitrary precision integers) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/nobench/imaginary/pidigits ghc 3.200 seconds (1.0 x) ghci 3.500 seconds (1.1 x) ghc-old 3.600 seconds (1.1 x) yhc 5.740 seconds (1.8 x) Would you like ketchup with that? ;) Thanks Neil