Hello Alberto, Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 5:58:31 PM, you wrote:
> I personally don´t care about raw performance. me too. actually, i write time-critical parts of my app in c++ > Haskell is in the > top of the list of language performance. this list is meaningless, as i said before > It has all the ingredients > for improving performance in the coming years: that's different question. i think that at the last end lazy languages will become as efficient as assembler, it just may happen not in my lifespan :) > I can not care less about how fast is C, when I simply can not > program many things I need in C or C++ or Java and in general any > of the language of the performance list that are above... if you don't know how to implement things in C, you cannot do it efficiently in Haskell too. when i write efficient code in Haskell, i actually use Haskell as obscure assembler (the same holds for C) > or below, > because they lack the necessary type safety, expressiveness, > abstraction.etc. they also can't make you coffee but it's is different story. i use Haskell too. i just know that it is slow and use other languages when i really need speed. it's why my archiver is world's fastest one :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
