Hello Brandon, Sunday, May 18, 2008, 6:25:31 PM, you wrote:
Optimization is hard. Don't like it? Become a compiler researcher and find better ways to do it. Note that C / procedural language optimization research has at least a 20-year head start on functional programming optimization, and that the problems are very different: the C world would love to be at the point where optimizing the C equivalent of "sum xs / length xs" is worth thinking about; they're still not really in a position to *detect* it unless the language is simple enough to make such reasoning relatively easy (e.g. FORTRAN).
and a few lines later you repeat what i said few years ago - ghc optimization research has got 100x times less attention than C++ optimization so we can't expect the same results in the next 5-10 years at least. strange that you still believe that ghc can optimize as good as gcc -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com