[Haskell-cafe] GHC needs a 64 bit machine to be fast?

FFT fft1976 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 05:06:11 EDT 2009


Update: I missed an earlier blog post and the discussion that followed it.

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/write-haskell-as-fast-as-c-exploiting-strictness-laziness-and-recursion/

On 32-bit machines, -fexcess-presision makes GHC output faster (only 2
times slower than C instead of 5-10, in my tests)


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