On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 23:59:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
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But as usual you have to take such comparisons cum grano salis,
because there are a lot more people working on the GHC compiler
and because the Shootout Haskell solutions are quite
un-idiomatic (you can see it also from the Shootout site
itself, taking a look at the length of the solutions) and they
come from several years of maniac-level discussions (they have
patched the Haskell compiler and its library several times to
improve the results of those benchmarks):
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout
I looked at that haskellwiki page but I didn't find anything to
suggest -- "they have patched the Haskell compiler and its
library several times to improve the results of those benchmarks"?
Was it something the compiler writers told you?
