[Haskell-cafe] Performance question

[Felipe Lessa]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a variant that uses mersenne-random-pure64 and works less than
> 2x slower than C++:

And I would like to notice that rand() is incredibly dumber than the
Mersenne twister, so probably if we took rand()'s code from glibc and
rewrote it in Haskell, there would be another performance increase.

-- 
Felipe.