[Haskell-cafe] strict bytestring fun

High performance strings on the shootout: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=sumcol&lang=all interesting alternative programs 0.5 Haskell GHC #5 1.29 90,880 270 1.0 Clean 2.77 600 136 2.0 C gcc 5.64 444 159 2.1 D Digital Mars #2 5.85 700 153 2.3 C++ g++ #2 6.46 848 244 Ah well, its illegally strict, but its good to know you can do it, eh? (A lazy bytestring version has been submitted, we'll see how that runs). -- Don