On 23 December 2005 19:15, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hi all,
I'm taking a look at the "Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks".
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
It looks like Haskell doesn't do very well. It seems to be near the bottom of the pile in most tests. Is this due to the inherent design of Haskell or is it merely the fact that GHC is young and hasn't had as much time to optimize as other compilers?
GHC? young? We celebrated GHC's 10th birthday a couple of years ago :-) Also, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that GHC wipes the floor with nearly everyone in the concurrency benchmark: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=message&lang=all Seriously, it's very difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions from these benchmarks. Cheers, Simon