[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Speed

[Greg Buchholz]

Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> 
> Rumor has it that the poor results are due to the inherent design of
> the shootout itself. The shootout seems to test how fast specific
> algorthims can be executed in various languages. Instead of testing:
> 
>  "Write a program that solves this problem quickly"
> 
> the tests are:
> 
>  "Write a program that solves this problem quickly, using *this* algorithm"

    At one time someone was working on creating the "Computer Language
Shoot-in" to compensate for this deficiency...

    http://shootin.sourceforge.net/

> And many of the algorithms that you are required to use are a very
> poor match for haskell. 

    True.  But there are some tests like "fasta" that appear to have a
laziness induced space leak that presumably could be fixed.   

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all


Greg Buchholz