[Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell outperform C++?

[Artur]

On 06.05.2012 10:44, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> On 6 May 2012 16:40, Janek S.<fremenzone at poczta.onet.pl>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a couple of times I've encountered a statement that Haskell programs can have performance
>> comparable to programs in C/C++. I've even read that thanks to functional nature of Haskell,
>> compiler can reason and make guarantess about the code and use that knowledge to automatically
>> parallelize the program without any explicit parallelizing commands in the code. I haven't seen
>> any sort of evidence that would support such claims. Can anyone provide a code in Haskell that
>> performs better in terms of execution speed than a well-written C/C++ program? Both Haskell and C
>> programs should implement the same algorithm (merge sort in Haskell outperforming bubble sort in
>> C doesn't count), though I guess that using Haskell-specific idioms and optimizations is of
>> course allowed.
> How about http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/use-those-extra-cores-and-beat-c-today-parallel-haskell-redux/
> ?
>
Hi,

  isn't it that particular Haskell code is outperforming C (22 seconds 
vs. 33), just because the author uses recursion in C? I surely love 
Haskell, and the way it's code is easy parallelized, but that example 
seams not fair.