A comparison of the evolution in speed of Haskell from version to version
rather than with other languages could have been very informative about the
progress in haskell speed. I think that the progression has been
astonishing.
I though that while seeing this language shootout in windows
http://dada.perl.it/shootout/
where ghc performance is rather mean. Until I realized that the version used
was GHC 5.04.2 http://www.haskell.org/
2009/11/4 Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin:
oh, can we stop saying about shootout? if you want to see speed of pure haskell code, look at papers about fast arrays/strings - their authors have measured that lazy lists are hundreds times slower than idiomatic C code. is use of lazy lists counted as mistake too and paper authors had too small haskell experience?
Comparing apples against oranges is a mistake, yes.
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