[Haskell-cafe] Array, Vector, Bytestring

[silvio]

> These libraries are tuned for wildly different workloads and use cases,
> so these sorts of micro benchmarks are an Apples to Frogs comparisons.

You can argue that for any benchmark, but sometimes the choice is 
between Apples and Frogs. If you have some more extensive benchmarks I'm 
happy to have a look at them.

> (even aside from the fact that you'll get very different perf if you
> used -fllvm and set things up so the array indexing and associated loop
> code get inlined and fused together!)

I think llvm should be default by now. In any case, if you write code, 
it is important to know how well something works out of box without you 
having to spend hours optimizing it.

> what is the actual concern? Strawman micro benchmarks that don't even
> compare the respective libraries for their intended use cases seeems....
> weird.

Perhaps i should have explained that better.

If one library was clearly superior to the others, that would have made 
it easier to choose.

Also I wanted to check if Unboxed was usually better than Storable as 
they are semantically the same (correct me if i'm wrong). Which it is in 
one example. Still I think Storable could be done so we don't need 
Unboxed, too.

I would have said that sum/fold (i.e. consecutive access of the 
elements) is a reasonable use case for how we typically use bytestring 
and the random access sum is a reasonable you use case for how we 
typically use array/vector. Interestingly enough the performance was 
exactly opposed to these reasonable use cases.

Silvio