[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: cmonad 0.1.1

[Lennart Augustsson]

Well, yes and no.  GHC actually does a decent job when given very
imperative code with references and mutable arrays.
Now the type I use to wrap the references to get type safe l-values
and r-values makes it tricker, and ghc lacks a crucial optimization
for specialization of constructor returns.
With that in place I think the code could be quite performant.

  -- Lennart

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/03/29 Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net>:
>> ...GHC lacks certain optimizations to make efficient code when
>> using CMonad, so instead of C speed you get low speed.
>
>  Is this surprising to anyone?
>
> --
> Jason Dusek
>