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