[Haskell-cafe] Re: Speed comparison?

[John Goerzen]

On 2005-05-03, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at digitaldistribution.com> wrote:
> Greg Buchholz wrote:
>
>>     You might find the "The Great Computer Language Shootout"
>> informative... 
>> 
>>     http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Thanks!
>
> That's a great resource. At first glance, Haskell seems to do well over-all.
>

It's also misleading, because sometimes Haskell's lazy nature meant
that it realized that executing the entire benchmark was meaningless, so
it finished instantly.  Some Haskell code had to be intentionally
"slowed down" to force the tests to run.

Not only that, but code for many languages (including Haskell) is so
heavily optimized for performance that it is unmaintainable stuff of the
sort that one wants people to never write.