Yes but doesn't GHC have a good "strictness analyzer" (or how is this called?)? I haven't looked at the generated assembly code yet (if this is at all readable; but good C/C++ compilers *do* generate reasonably readable assembly code)
-----Original Message----- From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:43 PM To: peterv Cc: 'Lukas Mai'; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Newbie question about tuples Hello peterv, Friday, July 13, 2007, 5:03:00 PM, you wrote: > think the latest compilers are much better). Now when implementing something > like this in Haskell, I would guess that its laziness would allow to > "interleave" many of the math operations, reordering them to be as optimal > as possible, removing many intermediate results (like processing streams). don't forget that laziness by itself makes programs an orders of magnitude slower :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe