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 <dons@galois.com>
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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