[Haskell-cafe] measure a function in ghci

[Ketil Malde]

Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

> Be wary of timing things in GHCi.  By default there are no optimizations in
> ghci so you could find that one implementation is much worse than the other
> but the situation might be completely different when optimizations are
> enabled.  I'm pretty sure if you start ghci with the -O flag that it will
> use optimizations.

...or if you compile your module first (ghc -c), I believe GHCi will use the
compiled code.

-k
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