I cannot open the files you mentioned in http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~boquist/ My acrobat Distiller complains and my winzip 8.1 program complains (for the gzipped postcript file) that it is not a valid archive. Anyway I am still interested to read it.
Regards John Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josef Svenningsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: Re: can a lazy language give fast code? > Hi, > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Scott J. wrote: > > > Can one write withthe Haskell compliler faster code than in the > > examples of http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ where GHC (old > > Haskell 98?) seems to be much slower than Ocaml or Mlton both strict > > functional languages. Can one expect any improvements in speed in the > > future? > > > There have been speed improvements in the past. I recommend reading Urban > Boquists thesis where he describes a whole program Haskell compiler which > generates pretty fast code. The thesis is very readable and I recommend it > heartily to everyone with just the slightest interest in compiling lazy > languages. > It can be found here: > > http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~boquist/ > > While we're on the subject there are a few things that I need to let out. > > I think the reason why Haskell compilers aren't generating any faster code > is that there is a lack of competition among different compilers. And I > think that the lack of competition depends on that noone wants to write a > front-end to Haskell. It's simply too complicated and too much boring work > before one comes down to the interesting details. I know there is work on > creating standardised front-ends and this is a step in the right > direction. But the current state of affairs is the price we've had to pay > to have such a feature-rich language. > > All the best, > > /Josef > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
