Hello Daniel, Sunday, May 3, 2009, 10:24:52 PM, you wrote:
> 32-bit sing core [1]: Lisp, Fortran :) this test measures speed of some programs, not "languages". results are depends mainly on bundled libraries and RTS. by no means it demonstrates speed of compiler-generated code of carefully-written program what is typically considered as "language speed". the reasons are: 1) C++ people (and probably Fortran too) aren't so interested in making fastest possible programs as Haskell community. it becomes popular a few years ago, you can find that Haskell becomes several faster at average since then, which doesn't reflect actual improvements in GHC code generation (10-20%) 2) Most programs there depend on speed of libraries. Moreover, there is limitation that it should be *bundled* libraries, so results greatly depends on what currently included in one compiler or another 3) it's prohibited to write your own fast code if bundled library is too slow (for example, because it's too general) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
