[Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell outperform C++?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 6 May 2012 16:40, Janek S. <fremenzone at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a couple of times I've encountered a statement that Haskell programs can have performance
> comparable to programs in C/C++. I've even read that thanks to functional nature of Haskell,
> compiler can reason and make guarantess about the code and use that knowledge to automatically
> parallelize the program without any explicit parallelizing commands in the code. I haven't seen
> any sort of evidence that would support such claims. Can anyone provide a code in Haskell that
> performs better in terms of execution speed than a well-written C/C++ program? Both Haskell and C
> programs should implement the same algorithm (merge sort in Haskell outperforming bubble sort in
> C doesn't count), though I guess that using Haskell-specific idioms and optimizations is of
> course allowed.

How about http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/use-those-extra-cores-and-beat-c-today-parallel-haskell-redux/
?

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