[Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

Bulat Ziganshin writes: (snip)

Haskell can't provide fast execution speed unless very low-level programming style is used (snip)

Is that an intrinsic feature of the language, or could compilers' optimisation plausibly get clever enough to do well without lots of seq and explicit unboxings and suchlike? -- Mark