RE: [Haskell-cafe] A tale of three shootout entries

| > If, after investigation (and perhaps checking with Don) you find that adding bangs makes your program go | slower, even though the function is in fact strict (otherwise it might go slower because it's just doing more | work!) then I'd love to see a test case. | | I wonder if this could be related to what I observed with AVL trees and | mentioned a while back (using a strict data type is slower than using | explicit seqs to get the same strictness). Could indeed be. That message is still in my performance-tuning pile; it's not forgotten, just buried. But the more evidence, the stronger the incentive to investigate. Simon