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

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.

-- Don
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