[Haskell-cafe] STAMP benchmark in Haskell?

Martin Sulzmann sulzmann at comp.nus.edu.sg
Mon Mar 3 03:41:52 EST 2008


Some Haskell-STM benchmarks can be found here:

Dissecting Transactional Executions in Haskell
Cristian Perfumo et al
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/TRANSACT07/

Martin


-Willem Maessen writes:
 > 
 > On Mar 1, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm experimenting with STM (in CAL[1] rather than Haskell)
 > > and want to run the STAMP[2] benchmarks.
 > 
 > Hmm, I don'tknow of a particularly good STM-in-Haskell benchmark, but  
 > I'd say that the STAMP benchmarks are written in a rather imperative,  
 > object-oriented style.  You wouldn't get very meaningful data about  
 > anything if you were to naively translate them to Haskell; you'd  
 > instead have to rewrite them completely (at which point head-to-head  
 > comparisons are difficult).
 > 
 > > Is there a Haskell translation available, or can anyone
 > > suggest a better/different benchmark suite for STM?
 > 
 > Good question.  Because we tend to eschew mutable state in Haskell,  
 > I'd expect the characteristics of such an application to be *very*  
 > different.
 > 
 > -Jan-Willem Maessen
 > 
 > >
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > >  Tom
 > >
 > > [1] http://openquark.org/Open_Quark/Welcome.html
 > > [2] http://stamp.stanford.edu/
 > >
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