[Haskell] Re: Haskell as a disruptive technology?

Neil Mitchell wrote:

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- Larger memory footprint

You are talking about GHC, not Haskell. Take a look at nhc98, which has a small memory footprint.

We should be clear about whether we're talking about the footprint of the compiler or the generated binary. I can well believe that GHC needs a lot more memory than nhc98 to run, but I'm not at all sure that the same relation holds when you consider the generated binaries, especially when GHC's compacting collector is being used and optimisation is turned on. Code size is probably larger with GHC. It'd nice to see some actual measurements done here. Cheers, Simon