[Haskell-cafe] Re: Seeking reference(s) relating to FP performance

[Graham Klyne]

Thanks... it's interesting to see that functional languages in general, and 
especially ML derivatives, do show comparable performance to languages like 
Python, Perl and Java.

But what I was really after was an indication of trends.  The impression I 
have is that longer the term trend is to close gap between FPLs and (say) 
C, and it is for that I'd like some supporting evidence, or indications.

#g
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At 19:00 29/09/04 +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
>On 2004-09-29, Graham Klyne <gk at ninebynine.org> wrote:
> > I've taken it as an article of faith that performance of FP language
> > implementations has been improving quite steadily over the past few
> > years.  I'd like to assert this, but I can't find any clear evidence to
>
>One place to start is the Language Shootout at
>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/.  While it is a benchmark, and
>therefore subject to all sorts of standard disclaimers about rigged
>benchmarks, some interesting conclusions can be seen:
>
>1. OCaml often performs better than g++
>
>2. OCaml sometimes even beats gcc.
>
>3. ghc doesn't seem to do very well in terms of performance, though it
>does at least beat out Java in many cases.
>
>4. ghc has some of the most concise programs out there
>
>There's not a lot of information there on historical trends, but the
>fact that a mostly-functional language like OCaml can beat out c++ is
>fairly impressive.
>
>-- John
>
> > I'm looking for a reference -- informal will be enough -- that can give an
> > perspective of progress in functional language implementation
> > performance.  I'm not looking for a single benchmark that shows a case of
> > blindingly-fast functional code, but a pointer to trends of improving
> > performance.  It would also serve my purpose to have indications based on
> > languages other than Haskell (e.g. ML and friends).
> >
> > Any ideas, please?
> >
> > #g
> >
> >
> > ------------
> > Graham Klyne
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>
>
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>John Goerzen
>Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
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