Hello Thomas, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1:41:24 AM, you 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.
you should look inside these tests, as i done :) most of these tests depends on libraries speed. in one test, PHP is 1st. from 2 or 3 tests that depends on compiler speed, one was fooled by adding special function readInt to ghc libs and the rest are written in low-level haskell code - look the sources
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.
i'm sorry, but this test only shows amount of work spent to optimize these programs. results of some tests was made 10-100 times better, while improving real programs performance needs much more work :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com