On 12/13/2012 10:28 PM, SomeDude wrote:
On Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 01:51:27 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
Certainly, you can argue that the faster version should be in a
prominent place in the standard library, but the fact that it is not
does not indicate a fundamental performance problem in the Haskell
language. Also, note that I am completely ignoring what kind of code
is idiomatic in both languages. Fast Haskell code often looks similar
to C code.
Well, you can write C code in D.
You can compare top performance for both languages, but the fact is, if
you write Haskell code extensively, you aren't going to write it like C,
so comparing idiomatic Haskell vs idiomatic D does make sense.
Optimizing bottlenecks is idiomatic in every language.
And comparing programs using the standard libraries also makes sense because
that's how languages are used. It probably doesn't make much sense in a
microbenchmark, but in a larger program it certainly does. ...
That is not what we are arguing.
