On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51:43PM +0100, Thomas Davie wrote: >> of course. what fool will say that ghc cannot be optimized the same >> way as gcc? if we spent the same amount of time for improving ghc >> back-end as was spent for gcc (tens or hundreds man-years?), then >> *low-level* Haskell code will become as fast as C one, while remaining >> several times slower to write > > Considering Haskell compilers have lots more guarenteed conditions to go > on (like referential transparency etc), I'd imagine actually that given > the same amount of effort, they could compile Haskell code to *much* > faster code than C.
Indeed. This is my thesis and jhc is my constructive proof (in progress) of said thesis. :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe