Walter Bright:
Ironically, the component program from the article I wrote: ... is 2x faster than the Haskell version:
Benchmarking code written in two different languages is tricky, there are so many sources of mistakes, even if you know well both languages. But I accept your timing. And I say that it's good :-) We should aim to be better than the Intel Labs Haskell Research Compiler (HRC) :-)
Bye, bearophile