Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shootout favouring C

On Monday 16 January 2006 21:43, Isaac Gouy wrote:

--- Daniel Fischer wrote:

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the Ackermann benchmark, it's very good for C that

they

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chose 9 and not a larger value? For 10, we are significantly faster and for 11,12,13, we can run rings around the C-programme

homepage: "understand that the faster program may become the slower program when the workload changes"

Maybe when there's a working version of this, it'll turn out to be the faster program

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=ackermann &lang=ghc&id=0

What is the reason the debian/amd page lists different program versions than gentoo/intel page? On the former, ghc fails two tests (downgrading it to rank 4), whereas on the latter, it does not and thus has rank 2. Ben