"Jan Brosius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But this example task was chosen as unlucky for Haskell.
>> In other, average case, I expect the ratio of 6-10.
> This seems that Haskell cannot be considered as a language for real
> world applications but merely as a toy for researchers .
Yeah. Let's just lump Haskell in with Perl, Python, Java, Lisp and
all those other toy languages, completely useless in the "real world".
The only argument against Haskell's performance that IMHO carries
any real weight, is that GHC is dog slow as a compiler[0]. No other
Haskell programs I've used or written[1] have been slow enough for me
to notice it.
-kzm
[0] almost as bad as Microsoft's C++ compiler, imagine that.
[1] admittedly not many. Are people using Haskell having problems
getting good enough performance? Enough to regret choosing it as a
language? (This is not a rhetoric question!)
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