[Haskell] comment on language shootout

[Simon Marlow]

On 18 June 2004 13:50, Gour wrote:

> Any comment from some experienced Haskell programmer about the latest
> language shootout published on:
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/index.php
> 
> regarding Haskell (ghc-6.2.1) score?

I submitted improved versions for some of the benchmarks.  

My feeling is that the #1 reason for ghc being slower is usually
Strings.  To really do better we need a good PackedString library
combined with PackedString I/O.  I believe the current PackedString
library is underperforming quite  a bit - it's on my queue of things to
look into.

Cheers,
	Simon