On 10 Mar 2008, at 08:36, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Can whoever picks this up please try the sort code from Yhc in their
comparisons. In my benchmarks it ran up to twice as fast as the GHC
code. http://darcs.haskell.org/yhc/src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/Data/List.hs

I believe the Yhc sort implementation is faster because Lennart did some extensive performance tuning of sorting with hbc, about ten years ago, and contributed the resulting winner to nhc98 way back then.

Regards,
    Malcolm

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