Gwern Branwen wrote:
...
" Ultimately, the problem with Haskell and ML for our purposes is that
the brightest and most aggressive programmers in those languages,
using the most aggressive optimization techniques known to the
research community, remain unable to write systems codes that compete
reasonably with C or C++. The most successful attempt to date is
probably the FoxNet TCP/IP protocol stack, which incurred a 10x
increase in system load and a 40x penalty in accessing external memory
relative to a conventional (and less aggressively optimized) C
implemenation. [ 4 ,6 ]"
http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/bitc-origins.html
Interesting paper.
Putting these remarks in context, in case anyone takes them as a current
critique of Haskell, they are apparently about ten years out-of-date and
apply to this SML program
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fox/foxnet.html
I wonder what would happen if the program was ported and benchmarked
in a recent version of GHC.
Richard.
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