inside the GHC code generator

[Kevin Glynn]

Bulat Ziganshin writes:
 > Hello Kevin,
 > 

 > 
 > KG> Also, ghc used to be faster than gcc for a naive, recursive factorial
 > KG> function (once the cpr analysis and optimisation was added).  From
 > KG> what Bulat wrote it seems that gcc got better ...
 > 
 > i don't say that we must compile recursive Haskell/STG functions
 > naively to recursive C ones (as jhc does). no - i say that we should
 > translate recursive Haskell definitions to explicit C loops, what is
 > NATURAL C PROGRAMMING STYLE and therefore optimized much better as you
 > can see in the files i attached
 > 

Ahhh, OK. I misunderstood.  I don't claim ghc beat a C loop.  ghc was
just more optimised at making function calls :-).

k