Re: [Haskell-cafe] Small question

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:08:42PM +0800, Hugh Perkins wrote:

On 8/10/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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Good idea! Maybe it could be fit into the GHC Performance Resource somehow? (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Performance/GHC)

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From the wiki: "Since GHC http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC doesn't have any credible competition in the performance department these days it's hard to say what overly-slow means"

Whoa, some wiki editor's been smoking a little too many illicit substances recently :-O

stefan@stefans:/usr/local/src/Agda-1.0.2/src$ gcc Import.hs /usr/bin/ld:Import.hs: file format not recognized; treating as linker script /usr/bin/ld:Import.hs:1: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status stefan@stefans:/usr/local/src/Agda-1.0.2/src$

I guess what is meant is "since GHC doesnt have any credible competion in the performance department these days relative to other Haskell compilers, it's hard to say what overly-slow means"? (but that's not quite how it reads ;-) )

Personally, I think of: GHC's purpose: To implement Haskell GHC's competition: Nyhc, Jhc, Hugs, Hbc, Shc, ... a few more maybe ... Haskell's purpose: To be a generally cool language Haskell's competition: C++, SML, ... hundreds of thousands more and I make no assertion of a representative sample ... Stefan