[Haskell-cafe] #haskell works

[Andrew Coppin]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> Program with no particular optimisations: 0.35 seconds.
>> Program with stream fusion [and GHC HEAD]: 0.25 seconds.
>> Program with stream fusion and ByteString: 0.05 seconds.
>>
>> Surely you'd have to work pretty hard to get that kind of speed even 
>> in C. ;-)
>>
>> ...erm, actually no. Somebody sat down and wrote something in five 
>> minutes that takes 0.005 seconds. Oops!
> You may also be paying a fixed cost penalty in GHC run-time 
> initialization.  Try increasing N and see what happens.

Yeah. Hence the "we should use something that takes tens of seconds". ;-)

(I suppose I could try writing a nop program and timing it. But 
personally I don't have any way of timing things to that degree of 
accuracy. I understand there are command line tools on Unix that will do 
it, but not here.)