I guess the optimizations that went into making lazy bytestring IO fast (on disks) are increasingly irrelevant as SSDs take over. On Mar 19, 2013 9:49 PM, "Peter Simons" <sim...@cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi Don, > > > "Using this input file stored in /dev/shm" > > > > So not measuring the IO performance at all. :) > > of course the program measures I/O performance. It just doesn't measure > the speed of the disk. > > Anyway, a highly optimized benchmark such as the one you posted is > eventually going to beat one that's not as highly optimized. I think > no-one disputes that fact. > > I was merely trying to point out that a program which encodes its > evaluation order properly is going to be reasonably fast without any > further optimizations. > > Take care, > Peter >
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