[Haskell-cafe] Slow IO?

[Steve]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 16:15 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: 
> Hello Steve,
> 
> Sunday, August 30, 2009, 3:54:53 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > So it looks like Haskell is ~13 slower for IO than C/C++, even (I
> > assume) when using Data.ByteString or other speed-up tricks.
> 
> it means that *your* program is 13x slower than C one and nothing
> more. in particular, your program may be constrained by readInt
> speed
> 

No, not at all. I did not count my program when comparing C/C++
to Haskell. I was counting the the *top 10* programs (submitted by
everybody) in the "Best Solutions" list. So its a general survey of
the best haskell solutions against the best C/C++ solutions.

Steve