I wrote a very simple program to check whether Haskell improved its array
processing libraries or not. Here is how to compile and run the program arr.hs
in Haskell (I have used the GHC compiler):
>ghc -O arr.hs -o arr.exe
$ time arr.exe +RTS -K32000000
2.8e8
real 0m3.938s
user 0m0.031s
sys 0m0.000s
The same program in Clean:
C:\Clean 2.2\exemplos\console>arraytest.exe
280000000
Execution: 0.01 Garbage collection: 0.01 Total: 0.03
C:\Clean 2.2\exemplos\console>arraytest.exe
280000000
Execution: 0.01 Garbage collection: 0.01 Total: 0.03
This means that Clean is 390 times faster than Haskell in this particular
problem. These results makes me worder whether Haskell is safer than Clean. It
turns out that Haskell checks index out of range at runtime, exactly like
Clean. Larger problems make the difference between Clean and Haskell even
worse. For instance, neural networks like the one described in Schmidtt et al.
run 400 times faster in Clean.
Haskell seems to be slow, and not safe. For instance, GHC compiler does not at
a program trying to write into a closed handle.
module Main where
import System( getArgs )
import IO
main = do
args <- getArgs
if (length args /= 2)
then putStr "Usage: f1a f2a <n>"
else (do
fromHandle <- openFile (head args) ReadMode
contents <- hGetContents fromHandle
toHandle <- openFile (head (tail args)) WriteMode
hClose toHandle -- Comment this line
hPutStr toHandle contents
hClose toHandle
putStr "Done.")
The Clean equivalent program is somewhat smaller. In my opinion it is easier to
understand. What is more important, Clean compiler balks at closed handles.
module cleancopy
import StdEnv, ArgEnv
Start w
# argv= getCommandLine
| size argv < 3 = abort "Usage, etc."
# (ok, f, w)= fopen argv.[1] FReadText w
(contents, f)= freads f 64000
(ok, f, w)= fopen argv.[2] FWriteText w
f= fwrites contents f
= fclose f w
Below you will find the array examples. You can check that Clean is really much
faster than Haskell. I wonder why the Benchmarks Game site does not report such
a large difference between Haskell and Clean performances. I believe that
people who wrote Haskell benchmarks for the Benchmarks Game site cheated in
using foreign pointers to access arrays.
-- arr.hs
import Control.Monad.ST
import Data.Array.ST
main = print $ runST
(do arr <- newArray (1,2000000)
137.0 :: ST s
(STArray s
Int Double)
a <- readArray arr 1
b <- readArray arr 1
fn 2000000 arr 0.0 )
fn i a acc | i < 1 = do (return acc)
fn i a acc= do
b <- readArray a i
writeArray a i (b+3.0)
c <- readArray a i
fn (i-1) a (acc+c)
//Clean version
module arraytest
import StdEnv
fn i a acc | i<1 = acc
fn i a=:{[i]=b} acc
# a= {a&[i]= b+3.0}
# (c, a)= a![i]
= fn (i-1) a (c+acc)
Start= fn 2000000 vt 0.0
where
vt:: .{#Real}
vt = createArray 2000001 137.0
--- On Mon, 10/12/09, rinus plasmeijer <[email protected]> wrote:
From: rinus plasmeijer <[email protected]>
Subject: [clean-list] Re: Clean
To: "Henrique" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Received: Monday, October 12, 2009, 1:22 AM
Hi Henrique
> Is this e-mail still working? http://clean.cs.ru.nl/
Yes.
>I want to know more about Clean: news?
updates?
> What is the future of Clean?
See: http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Latest_developments
We are working on a new version which allows you to
mix Clean and Haskell 98 code.
It is a lot of work, it will still take some time.
> Is Haskell killing Clean?
Haskell is certainly much more used, which is also
the raison for adding a Haskell front end.
> I would like to
learn and test Clean, and maybe then use it commercially.
> Where do I
can download it? I send e-mail to [email protected] , asked for
Clean at the site above, but I got no answer.
We did not got your
email.
To download browse to: http://clean.cs.ru.nl/Download/main/main.htm
> Obs: I am using windows platform.
Thats fine, it should work on any windows platform.
Greetings,
Rinus
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