On 23.12 19:14, Daniel Carrera wrote:
I'm taking a look at the "Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks".
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
It looks like Haskell doesn't do very well. It seems to be near the bottom of the pile in most tests. Is this due to the inherent design of Haskell or is it merely the fact that GHC is young and hasn't had as much time to optimize as other compilers?
Some reasons for this include: * Efficient string handling functions are packaged separately (faststring etc) And thus not included in shootout. * The tests change faster than Haskell people write efficient versions of the programs. * Most of the Haskell results are taking an imperative implementation and just translating it. * In many cases other languages use arrays while the Haskell implementation uses lists. Haskell does have efficient arrays. - Einar Karttunen