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

[Gregg Lebovitz]

Isaac,

I was looking at the debian coding contest benchmarks referenced by 
others in this discussion. All of the benchmarks algorithms, appear to 
be short computationally intensive programs with a fairly low level of 
abstraction.

In almost all examples, the requirement says: you must implement the X 
functions as implemented in Java, or C#, or C++. The k-nucleotide even 
specifies a requirement to use an update a hash-table.

I wonder if someone here could come up with a set of benchmarks that 
would out perform C++.

Interesting that you would focus on this one comment in my post and not 
comment on one on countering the benchmarks with a new criteria for 
comparing languages.

Gregg

On 5/16/2012 12:59 PM, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> Wed May 16 16:40:26 CEST 2012, Gregg Lebovitz wrote:
>
> 2) ... I think the problem with current comparisons,
> is that they are designed to favor imperative languages.
>
>
> Please be specific:
>
> - Which current comparisons?
>
> - How do you know what they are designed to favor?
>
>
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