[Haskell-cafe] Performance: MD5

[Jules Bean]

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

Nonsense? No.

Something that actually exists? No.

Haskell enables optimisations. Writing a SufficientlySmartCompiler ( 
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler ) still requires work.

Jules