[Haskell-cafe] Performance question

[haskell at kudling.de]

>> But you can remove sqrt from the C++ implementation as well, so it only
>> improves the relative performance if the C++ implementation of sqrt is
>> worse than its Haskell counterpart.
>
>Oops, of course I mean, you only improve if Haskell's implementation is
>worse than C++'s implementation :)

Actually i intend to compare real life performance of comparable algorithms. If sqrt is a problem in GHC/Haskell then this would be a valuable result. I want to know about these problems and not work around them at this point.

Thanks,
lenny