[Haskell-cafe] #haskell works

[Don Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello Don,
> 
> Saturday, December 15, 2007, 11:28:00 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >> > > Do you have the single loop C program, btw? I'd be curious to see if
> 
> > Oh, this isn't the original program, either. You need to find the
> > longest word and print it. Not count the words.
> 
> i can't understand what you mean by single-loop program? my code does
> one pass through the data without generating any intermediate data
> structures and i think that it's not worse than output of stream
> fusion

Yes, its very nice! That is the kind of code I'd *hope* to produce from
a series of fused loops! A bunch of little loop bodies alternative
control.

I'm actually more interested in Andrew's mysterious 10x faster C
program, someone provided to him. It solved the original problem of
finding the longest word in the dictionary. (So slightly more complex).

I'd expect a 2-3x worse bytestring program, in the worst case. So the
10x figure has been curious.

-- Don