[Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs GC'd imperative languages, threading, parallelizeability (is that a word? :-D )

Hugh Perkins hughperkins at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 03:57:14 EDT 2007


On 8/10/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
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> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nsievebits&lang=all
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> The GHC-compiled entry comes in at 1.2x C++, which I'm quite happy with.
> Strangely, despite your assertions, the C# entry lags well down the list.


Yeah, you somehow managed to slip around their rules without them noticing
;-)  They specify to use a bit array, but you dont ;-) Bit arrays are
optimal for space, but can be really slow.
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