[jhc] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.6.0 Haskell Compiler

[Don Stewart]

sylvain.nahas:
> Hi,
> 
> This compiler is very promising, for the least.
> 
> Here is a small dummy Haskell program.
> countdown :: Int -> IO ()
> countdown 0 = putStrLn "finished"
> countdown x = do 
> 		putStrLn (show x)
> 		countdown (x-1)
> main = countdown 10000000
> 
> and the C program that comes to closest.
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void)
> {
> 	int i;
> 	for(i=0; i<10000000; i++)
> 	{
> 		printf("%d\n",i);
> 	}
> 	printf("finished\n");
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> GHC is 6.10.1, gcc is 4.3.2, jhc is 0.6.0
> arch is i386/Linux(Ubuntu)
> 
> $ ghc hello.hs -o hello1
> $ jhc hello.hs -o hello2
> $ gcc hello.c -o hello3

Oh boy. Compile with optimizations on please! ghc -O2 et al.