Re: Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-22 Thread Ch. A. Herrmann
Hi, >> very slow. After we made the insert operation in the AVL tree >> hyperstrict and a few similar changes, our program behaved very >> well and is surely faster than if written in C using naive data >> structures and algorithms. We used combinators like strict2 f x >> y =

Re: Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Sven Panne
Jan de Wit wrote: > I think hyperstrict means that a function completely evaluates *all* > of its arguments before the body of the function, as opposed to only > some of them. [...] Hmm, at the moment I've got no cunning books around, but my understanding of `hyperstrict' was the following: A fun

Re: Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Jan de Wit
Hi All, > I find this interesting. It would be nice if you would like to explain me > what you mean by " hyperstrict" > I think hyperstrict means that a function completely evaluates *all* of its arguments before the body of the function, as opposed to only some of them. A function f taki

Re: Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Ketil Malde
In the vein of benchmarking, For those of you who follow comp.arch (or am I the only one?), you have probably noticed the discussion about Stalin vs. C compilers. For those who don't, it's basically one particular Scheme program where compiled Scheme beats a naïve rewrite in C with orders of mag

Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Frank Atanassow
Jan Brosius writes: > Recent (really recent ) benchmarks are not available ont the > Haskell website as far as I know Yes, it would be nice to see some recent benchmarks and interlanguage comparisons reported in an article. The pseudoknot article is already very outdated, and Clean in particula

Re: Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Ketil Malde
"Jan Brosius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NO, NO and NO , please read only what I have written. You mean, apart from >>> This seems that Haskell cannot be considered as a language for real >>> world applications but merely as a toy for researchers . ? I could have sworn you were saying her

Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Jan Brosius
- Original Message - From: Ch. A. Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:23 PM Subject: RE: speed of compiled Haskell code. > Hi, > > Jan> Haskell code optimised by strictnes annotions in functions or > Jan> in datastructures are ? ti

Fw: speed of compiled Haskell code.

2000-03-21 Thread Jan Brosius
- Original Message - From: Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jan Brosius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; S.D.Mechveliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:14 AM Subject: Re: speed of compiled Haskell code. > "Jan Brosius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >