[Haskell-cafe] [Somewhat OT] Speed

[Andrew Coppin]

J. Garrett Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Coppin
> <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>   
>> This isn't specifically to do with Haskell, but... does anybody have any
>> idea roughly how fast various CPU operations are?
>>     
>
> Yes: it's architecture dependent.  I imagine you'll need to make your
> questions at least somewhat more specific to get decent answers.
>   

Heh. I guess I implicitly *assumed* that everybody would know I'm 
talking about an IBM PC-compatible machine running an IA-32 or AMD64 
processor. ;-)