GHC vs. GCC on raw vector addition

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Moritz Hallberg <sm at khjk.org> writes:

> I'm running GHC and GCC head-to-head on the task of adding a bunch of
> long IOUArray-Vectors really fast. My machine is a Linux-ppc PowerBook
> and gets a runtime for the GHC-compiled binary that's about 10x as long
> as for GCC.

Is it possible that gcc is making use of the ppc AltiVec instructions,
and ghc is not?

Regards,
    Malcolm