--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.zigans...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
-snip-
> > You need look no further than the debian language
> shootout that things
> > really aren't as bad as you're making out √
> Haskell comes in in  
> > general less than 3x slower than gcc compiled C.
> 
> you should look inside these tests, as i done :)


When did you look - six months ago? a year ago? 3 years ago?


> most of these tests depends on libraries speed

Most? 

2 of 12 strongly depend on libraries because PCRE and GMP are explicitly 
allowed.


> in one test, PHP is 1st 

I don't believe that has ever been true - which test?


> from 2 or 3 tests that depends on compiler speed, one
> was fooled by adding special function readInt to ghc libs and the rest
> are written in low-level haskell code - look the sources

Please note that "sum-file" is not included in the current tests.

Please note that "sum-file" has not been included since autumn 2008.





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