[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Speed

Daniel Carrera writes:

when I have a simple algorithm and performance is an issue [...] I'd use C.

You don't have to. You can write very fast programs in Haskell. I never really finished the article I wanted to write about this subject, but the fragment I have might be interesting or even useful nonetheless: http://cryp.to/blockio/fast-io.html http://cryp.to/blockio/fast-io.lhs The text uses one of the Language Shootout's tasks as an example. Peter