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

[Silvio Frischknecht]

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> Can anyone provide a code in Haskell that performs better in terms 
> of execution speed than a well-written C/C++ program?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ compares a lot of programming
languages on a lot of problems. Haskell is never as fast as C++, but
for some problems it comes close.

Also I challenge anyone to improve one of the haskell programs there.
It'd be cool if we could make haskell get a higher rank. I recently
managed to improve the Fasta algorithm, but not by much. Also I think
the benchmarks don't use llvm flag. It says somewhere that they don't
measure llvm because they don't have time. But I think they are
refering to clang. So maybe someone should tell them to turn on the
llvm flag since it makes a lot of haskell programs faster.

Silvio
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