[Haskell-cafe] benchmarking pure code

[Paul Brauner]

Ok, thank you for all your answers. I'm going to use NFData as advised
by everyone.

Paul

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:38:50AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Paul Brauner <paul.brauner at loria.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you, I will look at that. But it seems that criterion uses NFData no?
> >
> 
> I do not know of anything wrong with NFData. What you're seeing is much more
> likely to be a bug in either the benchmarking library you're using, or in
> your use of it. Most of the benchmarking frameworks on Hackage are extremely
> dodgy, which was why I wrote criterion.