Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] haskell in online contests

2009-11-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Don, Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:08:44 PM, you wrote: it's just false assumption that you should got speed comparable to other languages. haskell is lazy and ghc has much less mature compiler comparable to other languages eh? That seems a little too broad to be meaningful, Bulat, as

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] haskell in online contests

2009-11-27 Thread vishnu
Hi Bulat hmm ok I understand the issue of compiler maturity. But I thought lazyness was meant to be a bonus? Or is it that if you really try to squeeze performance it becomes more of a hindrance? On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Don,

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] haskell in online contests

2009-11-27 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 27, 2009, at 23:18 , vishnu wrote: hmm ok I understand the issue of compiler maturity. But I thought lazyness was meant to be a bonus? Or is it that if you really try to squeeze performance it becomes more of a hindrance? If you're trying to eke out every last bit of performance,

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] haskell in online contests

2009-11-27 Thread Luke Palmer
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:18 PM, vishnu path...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bulat    hmm ok I understand the issue of compiler maturity. But I thought lazyness was meant to be a bonus? Or is it that if you really try to squeeze performance it becomes more of a hindrance? One of my favorite quotes by