Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 1:44:45 PM, you wrote:
I wanted to write to inform you how shocked I was to see the great advances in performance in the Glorious Haskell Compiler over the last year or so. Of course, we have also benefited from some great contributions by the folks on the Haskell-Cafe mailing list.
it's nice to read but completely false, you know. GHC don't improved it's speed over last year, 6.4.2 differs from 6.4 only in reliability areas
source of this great progress is really work of Haskell fans, especially Donald Bruce Stewart. moreover, i quickly scanned the tests where GHC still far behind it's competition and in most cases speed is determined by libraries.
This is the great thing. Not only are we already doing quite well, but we know there are substantial improvements still to be had.
.. (and jhc already generates native C code, so it will have at least one substantial advantage over GHC) ...
Compiling via C is a dead end. We realised this about 5 years ago, and yet we still haven't managed to shake off the C backend from GHC, but I remain hopeful that one day we will. /me heads for the cafe... Cheers, Simon