On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:44:15 +0100, Donald Bruce Stewart
So back in January we had lots of fun tuning up Haskell code for the Great Language Shootout[1]. We did quite well at the time, at one point ranking overall first[2]. [...]
Haskell suddenly dropped several places in the overall socre, when the size measurement changed from line-count to number-of-bytes after gzipping. Maybe it's worth it, to study why this is; Haskell programs are often much more compact then programs in other languages, but after gzipping, other languages do much better. One reason I can think of, is that for very short programs, the import statements weigh heavily. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/opera/buy-opera.html?AID=789433