[Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

[Achim Schneider]

Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:

> so - why YOU think that ghc
> generates fast code and this example is something unusual?
>
I think ghc has decent performance, and that there's room for
improvement. I don't care whether you compare it to gcc,
malbolge, or hand-written assembly, what matters isn't whether
something is unusual, it is that 


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if there's any way to have faster code than you get with ghc, right
now, it's worth a bug report, even if it's going to be tagged as
Milestone: ghc 120.10. Non-tracked issues are non-issues.

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Disk space is cheap, nowadays, and we can't have Simon's backlog run
empty. Anything could happen.


BTW: If you think I was being sarcastic in my last post, you are
mistaken. The message is much simpler.

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