[Haskell-cafe] Counting beta reductions for a Haskell program...

kk08 kdamodar2000 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 00:22:15 EST 2008


Thanks.
I heard that a Gofer compiler (a Haskell dialect) supports counting the Beta
reductions.
Hence I thought GHC/Hugs would have a similar facility.



Ryan Ingram wrote:
> 
> This doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  One of the reasons
> GHC-compiled code is so fast is that it turns into straight-line code
> whenever possible, via inlining, primitive optimizations, etc.
> 
> 
>   - ryan
> 
> [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.3729
> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 PM, kk08 <kdamodar2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does GHC supports/has a command for counting total beta reductions taken
>> by a
>> program?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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