[Haskell-cafe] benchmarking c/c++ and haskell

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 9/15/10 06:41 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
> play a role. Since ghc fares pretty well on 64-bit linux (David Terei and 
> Don), both, via the NCG and via C, it seems its 64-bit code generator is 
> better than its 32-bit code generator :(

amd64 has more registers; IIRC ghc needs a *lot* of registers to play with
to perform well (TBH *everything* does), so x86 is always going to be behind
the curve.

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