Re: [Haskell-cafe] Benchmarks game updated to ghc 6.12.2

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Ketil Malde wrote:

Don Stewart writes:

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http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/haskell.php

Observations:

Although we're mostly beaten on speed, and about the same on code size, we're using a lot less memory than Java.

As for code size, the programs are heavily tuned for speed. Although it is nice to show that we can indeed be fast, Haskell's forte is being almost as fast while clear and compact. Is it an idea to go back a few steps to more idiomatic code? Perhaps as a separate "track"? I also worry a bit that source code optimization for a specific compiler makes it more difficult to take advantage of compiler optimization improvements.

I was thinking the same thing with regard to the code being idiomatic Haskell. Then I took a look at the top entry (in GCC C), which has special malloc/free functions to achieve cache alignment. Then I realized just how nice the current Haskell version is :) Jason