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

[Isaac Gouy]

2012/5/8 Silvio Frischknecht

>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.


Several GHC versions have come and gone since the Haskell benchmarks game programs were written, so perhaps it is time that a dozen new programs were written to replace those old programs - new programs that take advantage of GHC 7.4.1 and -llvm.