Hello Mark, Sunday, December 17, 2006, 9:13:08 PM, you wrote:
Is that an intrinsic feature of the language, or could compilers' optimisation plausibly get clever enough to do well without lots of seq and explicit unboxings and suchlike?
of course it is not language feature - if you will compile by hand, you can get any performance :) btw, there is "parallel arrays" project by Manuel Chakravarty et al, which is oriented toward generating of C-level efficent programs from pure array computations. but anyway this don't solves all efficiency problems 15 years ago i preferred asm because C compilers was not smart enough. may be 15 years later Haskell compilers will also generate asm-quality code. who knows?.. :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com