Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-12 Thread Claus Reinke
Check out what GHC is doing these days, and come back with an analysis of what still needs to be improved. We can't wait to hear! can you point me to any haskell code that is as fast as it's C equivalent? You should do your own benchmarking! Please, folks! This is hardly helpful. It isn't

[Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:55:47 PM, you wrote: it's exactly example of tight loop. and let's compare HP code written for this task with analogous code written in C. i expect that haskell code is much more complex I think it's fair to point out that tight loops are nearly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello John, Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:55:47 PM, you wrote: it's exactly example of tight loop. and let's compare HP code written for this task with analogous code written in C. i expect that haskell code is much more complex I think it's fair to point out

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Toby Hutton
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:55:47 PM, you wrote: And ghc is still making large improvements with each release, whereas gcc isn't likely to get significantly better. yes, it's close to perfect LOL!

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Don, Thursday, February 12, 2009, 12:23:16 AM, you wrote: Check out what GHC is doing these days, and come back with an analysis of what still needs to be improved. We can't wait to hear! can you point me to any haskell code that is as fast as it's C equivalent? -- Best regards,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Don Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello Don, Thursday, February 12, 2009, 12:23:16 AM, you wrote: Check out what GHC is doing these days, and come back with an analysis of what still needs to be improved. We can't wait to hear! can you point me to any haskell code that is as fast as it's C

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Don, Thursday, February 12, 2009, 3:45:36 AM, you wrote: You should do your own benchmarking! well, when you say that ghc can generate code that is fast as gcc, i expect that you can supply some arguments. is the your only argument that ghc was improved in last years? :) -- Best

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Daniel Peebles
These seem to be good starting points: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/write-haskell-as-fast-as-c-exploiting-strictness-laziness-and-recursion/ http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/haskell-as-fast-as-c-working-at-a-high-altitude-for-low-level-performance/

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Re[4]: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-11 Thread Ben Lippmeier
A: X has some problems with runtime performance. B: My work solves all your problems. There is no problem. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy - Alan Perlis. can /= can be bothered. :) Ben. On 12/02/2009, at 5:26 PM, Daniel