On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, John Hughes wrote: > > Insist the warnings be available, don't require them to be in the standard > > warning level? > > > > > But then beginners will, without warning, sometimes find their code running > unreasonably > slowly. That isn't, really, any better. Too many will just conclude "Haskell > is unreasonably > slow" and abandon it. >
I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly had a poke around the bit in the GHC docs on making stuff go faster (being not entirely clueless I found the bit about float not being specialised to be patronising - I happened to have audio in mind where float's appropriate and saves cache). This particular student was also happy to stop thinking about speed so much for once - and with a gamedev community background I'm more interested in it than most, who were happy with Java at a point when it was still much slower than C++. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recomendations. Ivanova is God. And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out! _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime