[Haskell-cafe] [Somewhat OT] Speed

[Andrew Coppin]

Hi guys.

This isn't specifically to do with Haskell, but... does anybody have any 
idea roughly how fast various CPU operations are?

For example, is integer arithmetic faster or slower than floating-point? 
Is addition faster or slower than multiplication? How much slower are 
the trigonometric functions? etc. Does using 8-bit integers make 
arithmetic any faster than using wider values?

Does anybody have a good resource for this kind of information?