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

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Mark,

Sunday, December 17, 2006, 9:13:08 PM, you wrote:

> 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?

of course it is not language feature - if you will compile by hand, you can
get any performance :)  btw, there is "parallel arrays" project by Manuel
Chakravarty et al, which is oriented toward generating of C-level efficent
programs from pure array computations. but anyway this don't solves all
efficiency problems

15 years ago i preferred asm because C compilers was not smart enough. may
be 15 years later Haskell compilers will also generate asm-quality code.
who knows?.. :)


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