A comparison of the evolution in speed of Haskell from version to version rather than with other languages could have been very informative about the progress in haskell speed. I think that the progression has been astonishing. <div>
<br></div><div>I though that while seeing this language shootout in windows </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://dada.perl.it/shootout/">http://dada.perl.it/shootout/</a></div><div><br></div><div>where ghc performance is rather mean. Until I realized that the version used was GHC <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="http://www.haskell.org/"> 5.04.2</a></span></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/4 Don Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dons@galois.com">dons@galois.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
bulat.ziganshin:<br>
<div class="im">> oh, can we stop saying about shootout? if you want to see speed of<br>
> pure haskell code, look at papers about fast arrays/strings - their<br>
> authors have measured that lazy lists are hundreds times slower than<br>
> idiomatic C code. is use of lazy lists counted as mistake too and<br>
> paper authors had too small haskell experience?<br>
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</div>Comparing apples against oranges is a mistake, yes.<br>
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