[Haskell-cafe] To my boss: The code is cool, but it is about 100 times slower than the old one...

Stephen Tetley stephen.tetley at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 23:02:34 CET 2012


On 29 November 2012 18:09, Fixie Fixie <fixie.fixie at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>
> What is your experience, dear haskellers? To me it seems this beautiful
> language is useless without a better lazy/eager-analyzer.


Since when has speed been the sole arbiter of utility?

10 years ago I switched from Clean to Haskell, even though Clean was
then faster (and included a good strictness analyser). The available
libraries for Haskell is what swung the decision for me.



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