[Haskell-cafe] Found quote: "One of the ineradicable illusions about C++ is that the compiler should be able to see through ...

all the abstractions and obfuscations an “advanced” C++ program contains. First and foremost, C++ should be seen as a language that enables complexity management. The features one has grown fond of in this concept, like operator overloading, object orientation, automatic construction/destruction, etc., are however mostly unsuitable for efficient low-level code."

From "Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers" CRC Press, 2011.

So if one avoids such C++ complexity management features and a Haskell compiler can see through most of the complexity management features of Haskell; they should be comparable. :) Casey -- -- Regards, KC