RE: [Haskell] Haskell 6.4 perfomance

2005-03-29 Thread Simon Marlow
GHC 6.4 uses C-- as an intermediate language, it doesn't compile via C-- (yet). A full C-- backend has the potential to generate faster code that going via GCC, because C-- would have control over the stack and the calling convention. In my experience, extra optimisation flags for gcc make very l

Re: [Haskell] Haskell 6.4 perfomance

2005-03-25 Thread Alexandre
Keean, thank you. Does any tests/benchmarks available? Regards, /Alexandre. On Mar 25, 2005, at 00:47, Keean Schupke wrote: Think this should really go to glasgow-haskell-users... If this is true - how do I get ghc to use C--, and is it really faster than using gcc as a backend with all the bells

Re: [Haskell] Haskell 6.4 perfomance

2005-03-24 Thread Keean Schupke
Think this should really go to glasgow-haskell-users... If this is true - how do I get ghc to use C--, and is it really faster than using gcc as a backend with all the bells & whistles turned on (for a pentium-III) something like "-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer