Hello Brandon, Sunday, May 18, 2008, 6:25:31 PM, you wrote:
> Optimization is hard. Don't like it? Become a compiler researcher > and find better ways to do it. Note that C / procedural language > optimization research has at least a 20-year head start on functional > programming optimization, and that the problems are very different: > the C world would love to be at the point where optimizing the C > equivalent of "sum xs / length xs" is worth thinking about; they're > still not really in a position to *detect* it unless the language is > simple enough to make such reasoning relatively easy (e.g. FORTRAN). and a few lines later you repeat what i said few years ago - ghc optimization research has got 100x times less attention than C++ optimization so we can't expect the same results in the next 5-10 years at least. strange that you still believe that ghc can optimize as good as gcc -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
