On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:24:36PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > I see a lack of will to understand on your part (the same thing you see > in me :-). My statements are not contradictory: Some of the programs I > was talking about were throw-away programs, for one use, and I would be > satisfied even if they ran 10x-100x slower than they did, as long as > they could finish the task. But it is nice to see that they are fast, > even if they don't have to be, at least because it makes me more > confident with using Haskell in more performance sensitive areas.
I didn't explain why I did optimize the program. It was not because of speed, but because of memory usage. Better speed was a welcome, but not neccesary side effect. Anyway, don't concentrate on this particular example. All I say is that: - sometimes I get efficient programs in Haskell right away (I my case quite often, but YMMV) - sometimes efficiency doesn't matter I don't think it is contradictory, especially because the two "sometimes" can have a non-empty symmetric difference. Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
