"Andreas C. Doering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> > [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.
Did you ever try (space) profiling the program? IMHO if you
have applications were performance matters, profiling is
imperative.
Manuel
