[Haskell-cafe] speed: ghc vs gcc

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

Peter Verswyvelen <bugfact at gmail.com> writes:

> you could even pass it in a test data set to which it must be optimized; after the program is compiled,
> the compiler runs and profiles it, measures the results, and does another pass to make it faster.
>
> some C++ compilers can already do this (profile based optimization).
>
Rumor says firefox needs profile based optimization to run
faster.  Or it is not a rumor at all.

I guess for all those goodness of haskell, a heavy profile
based optimization should be done and could probably result
in a much faster binary than C++.

Best,
Xiao-Yong
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