Are these benchmarks still up-to-date? When I started learning FP, I had to choose between Haskell and Clean, so I made a couple of little programs in both. GHC 6.6.1 with -O was faster in most cases, sometimes a lot faster... I don't have the source code anymore, but it was based on the book "The Haskell road to math & logic". However, the Clean compiler itself is really fast, which is nice, it reminds me to the feeling I had with Turbo Pascal under DOS :-) I find GHC rather slow in compilation. But that is another topic of course. Peter Paulo J. Matos wrote:
Hello all,
I, along with some friends, have been looking to Haskell lately. I'm very happy with Haskell as a language, however, a friend sent me the link: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/
which enables you compare several language implementations. Haskell seems to lag behind of Clean.
From what I've seen of Clean it seems almost like Haskell. It even distributes a Haskell->Clean translator so the obvious question is, why is Haskell slower? Being similar languages and being GHC a very good compiler, can't it get at least as fast as Clean?
What am I missing here? (I wrote this mail assuming the results from the URL are trustworthy).
Cheers,