Are these benchmarks still up-to-date? When I started learning FP, I had
to choose between Haskell and Clean, so I made a couple of little
programs in both. GHC 6.6.1 with -O was faster in most cases, sometimes
a lot faster... I don't have the source code anymore, but it was based
on the book "The Haskell road to math & logic".
However, the Clean compiler itself is really fast, which is nice, it
reminds me to the feeling I had with Turbo Pascal under DOS :-) I find
GHC rather slow in compilation. But that is another topic of course.
Peter
Paulo J. Matos wrote:
Hello all,
I, along with some friends, have been looking to Haskell lately. I'm
very happy with Haskell as a language, however, a friend sent me the
link:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/
which enables you compare several language implementations. Haskell
seems to lag behind of Clean.
>From what I've seen of Clean it seems almost like Haskell. It even
distributes a Haskell->Clean translator so the obvious question is,
why is Haskell slower?
Being similar languages and being GHC a very good compiler, can't it
get at least as fast as Clean?
What am I missing here? (I wrote this mail assuming the results from
the URL are trustworthy).
Cheers,
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