Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Just a quick note to say that the Haskell implementation shootout is progressing, now supporting jhc, fixing a range of bugs, and providing more benchmark programs. Nice average numbers are also reported for the relative performance of each compiler or interpreter.
On x86: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/i686/results.html
On amd64: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/x86_64/results.html
Several bugs in our beloved Haskell compilers have been spotted, and most of them already fixed!
And also I guess the compilers will do more optimisations, etc. So this suggests an obvious extra feature for nobench which would be the ability to view a graph of each compiler's performance over a period of time, obviously this probably wouldn't be useful for at least a few months. However in particular it would be very good for the compiler writers to be aware if the performance goes *down* that is a further release of a compiler causes a benchmarked program to run slower. regards allan