Hello all, I, along with some friends, have been looking to Haskell lately. I'm very happy with Haskell as a language, however, a friend sent me the link: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/ which enables you compare several language implementations. Haskell seems to lag behind of Clean.
From what I've seen of Clean it seems almost like Haskell. It even distributes a Haskell->Clean translator so the obvious question is, why is Haskell slower? Being similar languages and being GHC a very good compiler, can't it get at least as fast as Clean?
What am I missing here? (I wrote this mail assuming the results from the URL are trustworthy). Cheers, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK