Re: [Haskell-cafe] OCaml list sees abysmal Language Shootout results

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:01:11PM +0200, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote:

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I just saw this on the OCaml list (in a posting by "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" in the "Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell" thread). I can't believe that a simple "wc" implementation should be 570 times slower in Haskell than OCaml - could someone investigate and fix the test?

No wonder it is so slow, this program looks as a result of some ,,as slow as possible'' contest ;)

It took me half an hour to make a version which is 41 times faster on a 5MB file. It should be possible to make it even 2-3 times faster than this. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links