Hi Bulat,
let's go further in this long-term discussion. i've read Shootout problems and concluded that there are only 2 tasks which speed is dependent on code-generation abilities of compiler, all other tasks are dependent on speed of used libraries. just for example - in one test TCL was fastest language. why? because this test contained almost nothing but 1000 calls to the regex engine with very large strings and TCL regex engine was fastest
It's more than 2 tasks that are dependant on the code generated by the compiler. And in my opinion, generally the Clean solution was the nicest in terms of speed/performance. There is absolutely no reason Haskell can't be as fast as Clean. Clean doesn't seem to go to the imperative style in most of the benchmarks. I think Bulat has a point, currently the speed of idiomatic Haskell lags behind that of idiomatic C. But the two responses to that have to be "currently", but not "forever". And idiomatic C is like pulling out your own teeth with a pair of pliers - sometimes necessary, but never fun. Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
