Hello Thomas, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1:41:24 AM, you wrote:
> You need look no further than the debian language shootout that things > really aren't as bad as you're making out √ Haskell comes in in > general less than 3x slower than gcc compiled C. you should look inside these tests, as i done :) most of these tests depends on libraries speed. in one test, PHP is 1st. from 2 or 3 tests that depends on compiler speed, one was fooled by adding special function readInt to ghc libs and the rest are written in low-level haskell code - look the sources > Of note, of all the managed languages, this is about the fastest √ > none of the other languages that offer safety and garbage collection > etc get as close as Haskell does. i'm sorry, but this test only shows amount of work spent to optimize these programs. results of some tests was made 10-100 times better, while improving real programs performance needs much more work :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
