20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
6:10 p.m.
Thomas Davie wrote:
You need look no further than the debian language shootout that things really aren't as bad as you're making out – Haskell comes in in general less than 3x slower than gcc compiled C.
Of note, of all the managed languages, this is about the fastest – none of the other languages that offer safety and garbage collection etc get as close as Haskell does.
Bob
OCaml and Clean seems to be pretty fast too.