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
Simon Marlow wrote:
GHC? young? We celebrated GHC's 10th birthday a couple of years ago :-)
How is that possible if Haskell98 is 7 years old? I thought Haskell itself was a very young language (as far as computer languages can be young). Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. /
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
GHC? young? We celebrated GHC's 10th birthday a couple of years ago :-)
How is that possible if Haskell98 is 7 years old?
The same way GCC is much older (dates from 1984) than C99 (dates from 2000). Haskell 98 is the newest standard, but it wasn't the first version of the language. The first public version was Haskell 1.0, dated in March 1990. I believe GHC is only a year or two younger.
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