[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell performance

[Isaac Dupree]

Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 19:02, Don Stewart wrote:
>> Ok, so I should revive nobench then, I suspect.
>>
>>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/x86_64/results.html
>>
>> that kind of thing?
> 
> Many of those benchmarks look good.
> 
> However, I suggest avoiding trivially reducible problems like computing 
> constants (e, pi, primes, fib)

true in general, but I know I use computed constants in real code 
because it's cleaner than using their expanded value, so it's worth 
checking whether a compiler can (still) do (how much of) that.

Isaac