# Re: [stack] Re: Digest Number 89

## Louis Madon — 2000-09-11 11:29:14

    Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:

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    > [eGroups] My Groups | concatenative Main Page | Start a

    >           new group!

    >

    > --- In concatenative@egroups.com, Louis Madon <madonl@b...> wrote:

    > > The most suprising result for me, was the poor showing of ghc (a

    > Haskell

    > > compiler) - it was almost as slow as the Joy interpreter; nearly 14

    > > times slower than the O'Caml version and 20 times slower than the C

    > > version.

    >

    > May this not be caused by the fact that by default Haskell uses

    > extended (i.e.: infinite) precision integers?

    > --

    >     WildHeart'2k

    >

     Sorry yes, that was a silly blunder on my part. Replacing 10000000 with

    (10000000::Int) reduced the ghc benchmark to 1.8 seconds. Much better!

    --

    Louis.