20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
7:07 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51:43PM +0100, Thomas Davie wrote:
of course. what fool will say that ghc cannot be optimized the same way as gcc? if we spent the same amount of time for improving ghc back-end as was spent for gcc (tens or hundreds man-years?), then *low-level* Haskell code will become as fast as C one, while remaining several times slower to write
Considering Haskell compilers have lots more guarenteed conditions to go on (like referential transparency etc), I'd imagine actually that given the same amount of effort, they could compile Haskell code to *much* faster code than C.
Indeed. This is my thesis and jhc is my constructive proof (in progress) of said thesis. :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈