Hello Alberto, Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 5:58:31 PM, you wrote:
I personally don´t care about raw performance.
me too. actually, i write time-critical parts of my app in c++
Haskell is in the top of the list of language performance.
this list is meaningless, as i said before
It has all the ingredients for improving performance in the coming years:
that's different question. i think that at the last end lazy languages will become as efficient as assembler, it just may happen not in my lifespan :)
I can not care less about how fast is C, when I simply can not program many things I need in C or C++ or Java and in general any of the language of the performance list that are above...
if you don't know how to implement things in C, you cannot do it efficiently in Haskell too. when i write efficient code in Haskell, i actually use Haskell as obscure assembler (the same holds for C)
or below, because they lack the necessary type safety, expressiveness, abstraction.etc.
they also can't make you coffee but it's is different story. i use Haskell too. i just know that it is slow and use other languages when i really need speed. it's why my archiver is world's fastest one :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com