[Haskell-cafe] newbie questions (read, etc., with Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8)

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello wman,

Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 8:44:48 AM, you wrote:

> btw, why is the example #2
> (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=sumcol&lang=ghc&id=2)
> (which kicks collective asses of all other participants) not
> considered in the shootout ? Too much optimizations ?

it's cheating - application code written in low-level style instead of
using library functions (if you will write in the same style in C it
will probably even several times faster)


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com