[Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

[David Menendez]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Thomas DuBuisson
<thomas.dubuisson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using bang patterns didn't help almost anything here. Using rem
>> instead of mod made the time go from 45s to 40s. Now, using -fvia-C
>> really helped (when I used rem but not using mod). It went down to
>> 10s.
>
> Bang patterns should have helped tons - it isn't GHC thats at fault
> here and yes it does tco.  I attached a version w/ excessive bangs
> below.  Did you compile with "ghc --make -O3 -fforce-recomp"?

Does -O3 actually do anything? GHC only goes up to -O2.

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Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>