Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Simon
Benchmarks please! Let's see some comparisons on the nofib suite. If there's a factor of 2 or less between GHC -O2 and YHC for any of the nofib programs, I'll eat my keyboard for lunch :-)
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/bench.results
Test: pidigits (lazy, arbitrary precision integers) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/nobench/imaginary/pidigits ghc 3.200 seconds (1.0 x) ghci 3.500 seconds (1.1 x) ghc-old 3.600 seconds (1.1 x) yhc 5.740 seconds (1.8 x)
Would you like ketchup with that? ;)
pidigits is not (currently) one of the nofib programs (phew :-). I suppose the reason for the results is because the test spends most of its time in GMP? There are some other odd results in nobench, like the 2 programs where Hugs beats GHC that we need to look into. Cheers, Simon