can a lazy language give fast code?

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
>> Perhaps the ICFP contests are actually fairer as benchmarks than as
>> competitions?

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:59:31AM +0100, D. Tweed wrote:
> Interesting thought, particularly if the judges announced changes to what
> the problem to be solved was half-way through :-)

Don't forget to change the operating system, programming language,
hardware platform, work site, and lay off 80% of the team. =)


Cheers,
Bill