[Haskell-cafe] How to improve speed? (MersenneTwister is several times slower than C version)

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello isto,
> 
> Thursday, November 2, 2006, 1:16:55 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > I have tried to do different things but now I'm stuck.  unsafeRead
> > and unsafeWrite improved a bit the lazy (STUArray-version) and
> 
> why you think it's a lazy? :)  ST monad is just the same as IO monad
> internally, only types are different (there is also Lazy.ST monad -
> this is really lazy)
> 
> 10-20 times difference is typical for GHC programs.

!

It's really more like 2-4x. Sometimes better than C.

Where's this huge figure coming from Bulat? If you have code that
behaves like this, you should report it.

-- Don