computer language shootout

[Miles Egan]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:18:49AM -0500, matt hellige wrote:
> [Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>]
> > I apologize if this question has already been asked, but I couldn't find a
> > searchable version of the mail archive.
> > 
> > Doug Bagley's computer language shootout, http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/,
> > a collection of mini-benchmarks in several languages, doesn't paint a very
> > flattering picture of GHC's performance.  GHC is even ranked below Ruby and
> > Python!  Has anyone tried to optimize any of the GHC programs?  
> > 
> > Ocaml fares quite well in these tests and a glance at several of the Ocaml
> > programs suggests that most of them have been fairly aggressively optimized.  
> > These kinds of benchmarks are kind of silly, but also a good p.r. opportunity.
> > 
> 
> which benchmark were you looking at in particular? as far as i know, there
> is no sort of "overall conclusion" on that particular site... and on many
> of the benchmarks, ghc performed quite competitively (in some cases even
> beating the pants off g++)... 

Overall speed ratings on the "scorecard" page place GHC below AWK and slightly
ahead of TCL.  GHC does perform well on a few of the benchmarks but performs
surprisingly poorly on many others, which makes me think that there's a lot of
room for improvement.

-- 
miles

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