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

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

> 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?

I believe that compilers can get a lot cleverer - my hope is that one
day the natural Haskell definition will outperform a C definition.

Of course, lazy evaluation makes that hard work, but I think it can be
done eventually.

Thanks

Neil