29 Apr
2010
29 Apr
'10
7:38 a.m.
Don Stewart
Observations: Although we're mostly beaten on speed, and about the same on code size, we're using a lot less memory than Java. As for code size, the programs are heavily tuned for speed. Although it is nice to show that we can indeed be fast, Haskell's forte is being almost as fast while clear and compact. Is it an idea to go back a few steps to more idiomatic code? Perhaps as a separate "track"? I also worry a bit that source code optimization for a specific compiler makes it more difficult to take advantage of compiler optimization improvements. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants