# Functional Stack Based Languages are Fast

## Christopher Diggins — 2007-02-20 17:27:32

    You all may probably realize this, but functional stack-based

    languages have great potential for efficient performance and

    concurrency.

    Today I managed to get an algorithm written in Cat to outperform C# by

    43% on my two-processor machine.

    For more details see:

    http://cdiggins.com/2007/02/20/cat-binary-recursion-benchmark-43-faster-than-c/

    Just thought you might be interested!

    I'll keep you posted as I get some more benchmarks going. The Cat

    quicksort results should bee very interesting.

    Christopher