G'day all.
Quoting Bulat Ziganshin
Haskell can't provide fast execution speed unless very low-level programming style is used (which is much harder to do in Haskell than in C, see one of my last messages for example) AND jhc compiler is used
I've written an implementation of OpenPGP. (Not in Haskell, though.) The PGP format is heavily character stream-based. We know how horrible the performance of character streams are in Haskell. On one hand, this would be an excellent test case. On the other hand, performance would indeed suck now. Incidentally, to those wanting to write the next high profile Haskell project, all I can suggest is to go ahead and do it. That's how all of the current high-profile projects were done, so why change a winning formula? Cheers, Andrew Bromage