Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:
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> --- 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.
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> May this not be caused by the fact that by default Haskell uses
> extended (i.e.: infinite) precision integers?
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> WildHeart'2k
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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!
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Louis.