Re[7]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Sebastian, Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:55:38 AM, you wrote: yes, you are right. Don also compared results of 64x-reduced computation with full one. are you think that these results are more fair? Yes. Clearly so. It still computes the result from scratch - it just uses a trick

Re: Re[7]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sebastian, Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:55:38 AM, you wrote: yes, you are right. Don also compared results of 64x-reduced computation with full one. are you think that these results are more

Re[7]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Louis, Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:59:05 AM, you wrote: Sebastian, that's not Bulat's point.  He's saying that if we make that optimization in Haskell, we should at least make the same optimization in GCC for fair comparison.  (Though I'm not entirely sure that that optimization would

Re: Re[7]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Louis Wasserman
Bulat, Thank you for being productive. =) of course these results are useful! my own goal was just to make fair comparison. i'm bothered when people said that ghc should be used for something like video codecs based on those let's optimize only for haskell pseudo-benchmarks. if Don was omitted