In general code compiled with GHC will be a lot faster than code interpreted by GHCI. You can also call compiled code from within GHCI, in which case you would hardly see a performance difference.
On 22 February 2011 08:26, C K Kashyap <ckkash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Is there a runtime performance difference between a haskell program running > under GHCI vs in its compiled form? > Especially for a long running program - as in, ignoring the initial setup > time. > If I understand right, in both case tree reduction is what is happening and > performance should be similar. > Regards, > Kashyap _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
