[Haskell-cafe] Performance: MD5

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sun May 18 04:40:20 EDT 2008


Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> if you need maximum efficiency,
> drop all this high-level code and map md5.c to haskell as it was done
> in Don's blog
>   

Wait... you're telling me to give up? To not even try??

So all that bravado about Haskell enabling higher-level optimisations to 
produce a result faster than C is actually complete nonesense?

What an awesome "community" this language has behind it... I'm not sure 
why I bother.



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