Help with a Shootout program

[Simon Marlow]

On 25 February 2005 13:46, Alson Kemp wrote:

>> Welcome to the club :-)
>>
http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/msg06012.h
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> 	I tried Simon's version, but it throws a "Fail: Ix{Int}.index:
Index
> (5) out of range ((0,4))" error.  Haven't tracked down the cause yet.
> 
> 	So I guess that the upshot is just that "GHC is slow on this
test."
> Is lazy evaluation what is slowing this down so badly?

There's no fundamental problem here.  We just need decent support for
packed strings and hash tables (or tries?) of them.

Cheers,
	Simon