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

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello Louis,
>
> Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:30:23 AM, you wrote:
>
> yes, you are right. Don also compared results of 64x-reduced
> computation with full one. are you think that these results are more
> fair?


Yes. Clearly so.
It still computes the result from scratch - it just uses a trick which
generates better code. This is clearly a useful and worthwhile exercise as
it shows A) A neat trick with TH, B) A reasonably practical way to produce
fast code for the critical parts of a Haskell app, C) a motivating example
for implementing a compiler optimization to do it automatically.

Just outputting the precomputed result means nothing.



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