[Haskell-cafe] Optimization demonstration

[Ryan Reich]

In other words, it's not competition with the language C but with its
popular compiler. Choose an example that doesn't simplify and you'll get a
fairer contest.

On Feb 27, 2018 07:52, "Brandon Allbery" <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Dušan Kolář <kolar at fit.vut.cz> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, in this case the C is much more faster (it prints the
>> result immediately), at least on my machine. Is it due to a fact that C
>> compiler does a brutal optimization leading to compile-time evaluation,
>> while ghc is not able to do that?
>>
>>
> ghc is less prone to invoke that kind of optimization, but sometimes can
> do so. And yes, gcc is decidedly "brutal" with -O2: inspect the generated
> assembler and you'll find that it just prints a constant.
>
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