On Friday 20 February 2009 16:29:29 Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello haskell-cafe, > > since there are no objective tests comparing ghc to gcc, i made my own > one. these are 3 programs, calculating sum in c++ and haskell: > > main = print $ sum[1..10^9::Int] > > ... skipped ...
The discussion is mostly about low level optimizations such as loop unrolling etc. I have another question. Why shouldn't compiler realize that `sum [1..10^9]' is constant and thus evaluate it at compile time? -- Khudakov Alexey _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
