On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote: > I just saw this on the OCaml list (in a posting by "Rafael 'Dido' > Sevilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the "Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell" > thread). I can't believe that a simple "wc" implementation should be > 570 times slower in Haskell than OCaml - could someone investigate and > fix the test?
No wonder it is so slow, this program looks as a result of some ,,as slow as possible'' contest ;) main = do file <- getContents putStrLn $ show (length $ lines file) ++ " " ++ show (length $ words file) ++ " " ++ show (length file) Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe