On 2/10/07, Peter Berry <pwberry@gmail.com> wrote:
Gah! Gmail has really broken defaults for posting to lists.

On 10/02/07, Creighton Hogg <wchogg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Haskell-ers,
> So a friend and I were thinking about making code faster in Haskell, and I
> was wondering if there was a way to improve the following method of
> generating the list of all prime numbers.  It takes about 13 seconds to run,
> meanwhile my friend's C version took 0.1.  I'd love to learn a bit more
> about how to optimize Haskell code.

Which subproblem takes 13 seconds? (Surely generating a list of all
primes will take an infinite amount of time, since there are
infinitely many of them?)

Apparently I shouldn't send e-mails quickly, as it comes out as gibberish.  It was the first 10000.  The thirteen seconds was just approximate, but it showed the C one was much faster, which I figured was because I had constructed it poorly.  Apparently I had, and I even managed to type it in wrong.