[Haskell-cafe] A tale of three shootout entries

[Don Stewart]

s.clover:
> In some spare time over the holidays I cooked up three shootout  
> entries, for Fasta, the Meteor Contest, and Reverse Complement. I  

Yay!

> First up is the meteor-contest entry.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
> test=meteor&lang=ghc&id=5
> 
> This is the clear win of the bunch, with significantly improved time  
> thanks to its translation of the better algorithm from Clean.  

Well done! Though looks like we'll have to follow the C++ implementation 
to be really competitive.

> Next is reverse-complement.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
> test=revcomp&lang=ghc&id=3

Very good. I'm glad someone looked at that, since the old code was
moderately naive (first bytestring effort).

> Finally, there's fasta.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
> test=fasta&lang=ghc&id=2
  
Yeah, we should do something better here. Hmm.
  
> p.s. It looks like they've depreciated chameneos in favor of a new  
> version, chameneos-redux. As this was one of the places Haskell  
> really rocked the competition, it would probably be worth updating  

Definitely. I note also we're beating Erlang on the new thread-ring 
benchmark too,

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=threadring&lang=all

> the Haskell entry for the new benchmark. Also, the n-bodies benchmark  
> seems like another that could be much improved.

Yeah, that's a hard one.

-- Don