[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Speed

[Peter Simons]

Daniel Carrera writes:

 > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
 >
 > It looks like Haskell doesn't do very well. It seems to be
 > near the bottom of the pile in most tests. Is this due to
 > the inherent design of Haskell or is it merely the fact that
 > GHC is young and hasn't had as much time to optimize as
 > other compilers?

It's because nobody took the time to write faster entries
for the tests where Haskell is at the bottom of the pile.
The "Computer Language Shootout Benchmark" is a fun idea,
but it's quite pointless to draw any conclusions about
programming languages from those results. If it were
included in the contest, native assembler code would win
every time.

Peter