On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:12:14PM +0000, Matthew Naylor wrote:
Hi all,
GHC v Hugs v Yhc v NHC v ...
... Hacle & Clean!
I shoved 5 of the benchmarks that Donald used through Hacle, and compiled the outputs using version 2.1 of the Clean compiler. Results are below.
Submit a patch, it's easy! Took me <10 minutes to add YHC support and send it in. (the reason my name isn't in darcs changes is because dons' X crashed, killing darcs, irreperably corrupting _darcs, so he had to rm -r _darcs ; darcs init) Just edit header.mk and footer.mk in the obvious way.
As for the other examples, Hacle doesn't like non-Haskell98 and translates arbitrary-precision integers to fixed-precision ones (!)
Don't worry, nobench is based on a testsuite and as such is prepared to diff output. (if that doesn't happen, I'd consider it a bug)
I'm not sure how well Hacle would work with nobench because input files must be unambiguously-typed assuming a "default ()" at the top. So some programs may require a little tweaking to go through. Mind, this was only a problem on 1 of the 5 programs I just tried...
Well, he was willing to make concessions for Yhc brokenness (wrt importing System.Environment - yhc's System doesn't export getArgs like the Report says it should (first tangible result of nofib: the Yhc team has fixed it)) And don't worry about adding dependencies - you can remove compilers you don't have by editing the COMPILERS = line in header.mk. Stefan