> [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!)
No and yes.
I use Haskell mainly for combinational problems in research.
I would love to get higher performance without much effort.
For one result I had to wait for over a week, the process used over 800MB
main mem on our Sun Enterprise.
GHC-compiled over Hugs gave approximately a factor 3.
Haskell allows me to use smarter algorithms with small effort, I never had
implemented the stuff at all in C.
I did not yet try to use parHaskell so we have nice parallel systems here
(e.g. cluster with 96 Pentiums).
Andreas
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Medizinische Universitaet zu Luebeck
Institut fuer Technische Informatik
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