On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:28:54 -0000 > From: Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "[iso-8859-1] S�bastien Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Haskell performance > > | > I am currently evaluating different languages for implementing an > | > application which will have to manipulate large graphs representing > | > the structure of programs and their evolution. > | > | > Speed is in fact a crucial criterium for the language choice.
Not long ago, I threw out 15 000 lines of optimized C in favour of haskell just because of speed; implementing the algorithm I wanted would have been more or less impossible because of the overwhelming complexity. In C I would shoot my toes off by just looking at any memory use; in haskell I can concentrate on coding this much faster algorithm. if you want a 10 times speed up, you wait some time for the hardware technology to make up. if you want a 100 times speed up, you consider your algorithms. ---------------------------------------------------------- Johan 'Mahogny' 'Staalis' Henriksson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University Lead Coder at Areta, www.areta.org Engineer and sysadmin at BRK-Tjaenst AB, www.brksweden.se _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
