Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc vs jhc

2009-02-20 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1:33:12 AM, you wrote: Don't forget jhc: i was pretty sure that jhc will be as fast as gcc :) unfortunately, jhc isn't our production compiler -- Best regards, Bulatmailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc vs jhc

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Davie
On 20 Feb 2009, at 23:44, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello John, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1:33:12 AM, you wrote: Don't forget jhc: i was pretty sure that jhc will be as fast as gcc :) unfortunately, jhc isn't our production compiler Why not? There's nothing stopping you from choosing

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc vs jhc

2009-02-20 Thread John Meacham
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:52:27PM +0100, Thomas Davie wrote: On 20 Feb 2009, at 23:44, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello John, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 1:33:12 AM, you wrote: Don't forget jhc: i was pretty sure that jhc will be as fast as gcc :) unfortunately, jhc isn't our production

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc vs jhc

2009-02-20 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:49:25 AM, you wrote: what is substantial size? can jhc be used for video codec, i.e. probably no extensions - just raw computations, and thousands or tens of thousands LOCs? Perhaps. A bigger issue in practice is that the larger a program is, the

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc vs jhc

2009-02-20 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 3:42:24 AM, you wrote: this is true for *application* code, but for codec you may have lots of code that just compute, compute, compute Yes indeed. If there is code like this out there for haskell, I would love to add it as a test case for jhc.