27 Mar
2006
27 Mar
'06
12:36 a.m.
paul:
Neil Mitchell wrote:
- Larger memory footprint
You are talking about GHC, not Haskell. Take a look at nhc98, which has a small memory footprint.
I don't want to get into a compiler flame war. The fact is that if you want to do huge datasets or very fast computation (the two tend to go together) then Haskell is the wrong language. This isn't an attack on Haskell, its a straightforward look at the strengths and weaknesses of the language.
It's not always clear that it won't work for very fast computation: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=partialsums&lang=al... In general I would say GHC/Haskell was very very fast, as long as you know what you're doing. -- Don