[Haskell-cafe] How you can help improve Haskell implementations!

[Allan Clark]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> Just a quick note to say that the Haskell implementation shootout is
> progressing, now supporting jhc, fixing a range of bugs, and providing
> more benchmark programs. Nice average numbers are also reported for the
> relative performance of each compiler or interpreter.
>
> On x86:
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/i686/results.html
>
> On amd64:
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/x86_64/results.html
>
> Several bugs in our beloved Haskell compilers have been spotted, and
> most of them already fixed!
>   
And also I guess the compilers will do more optimisations, etc.
So this suggests an obvious extra feature for nobench which would be the 
ability to view a graph of each compiler's performance over a period of 
time, obviously this probably wouldn't be useful for at least a few 
months. However in particular it would be very good for the compiler 
writers to be aware if the performance goes *down* that is a further 
release of a compiler causes a benchmarked program to run slower.

regards
allan