[Haskell-cafe] OCaml list sees abysmal Language Shootout results

[Ketil Malde]

Ketil Malde <ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no> writes:

>> wc :: !(Int,Int,Int) -> Char -> (Int, Int, Int)

> I'm not sure if that was your question

Sorry about that, brain malfunction, bangs are for data declarations,
I'll get that cup of coffee now. 

I guess what you really want to do, is to put some `seq`s in there.
Something like: 

    wc (cs,ws,ls) ... = cs `seq` ws `seq` ls `seq` ...the def. of wc...

which evaluates the Ints before doing anything else.  Or use (!$)
(like function application ($), but strict).

-kzm
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