[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code 2009

[Don Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello Don,
> 
> Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 8:28:33 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >> anyway it's impossible due to slow code generated by ghc
> 
> > Been a long time since you did high perf code -- we routinely now write
> > code that previously was considered not feasible.
> 
> which is still slower than C and need more time to write
> 
> > However, I would say it needs an optimisation expert, yes, in any
> > language.
> 
> there are experts, includingyou, in making haskell specific code as
> fast as possible, but i don't know anyone using haskell to write
> high-performance code. so you ask for non-existing specialists

We're doing it at Galois regularly. Check out the blog.

-- Don