[Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> writes:
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> Haskell can't provide fast execution speed unless very low-level
> programming style is used
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Is that an intrinsic feature of the language, or could compilers'
optimisation plausibly get clever enough to do well without lots of seq
and explicit unboxings and suchlike?

-- Mark