Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Bjorn Lisper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,

> "Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >* While Sisal is arguably nice than Fortran, it doesn't
> >  really provide a new killer feature - rewriting all this
> >  Fortran code, just for getting nice programs is maybe not
> >  enough of an incentive.
> 
> As I remember it, a main argument for Sisal was that the freedom of side
> effects would simplify the automatic parallelisation. So one important
> percieved incentive was to actually get better performance than from
> automatically parallelised Fortran.

But, as far as I know, there was never an implementation
that actually demonstrated that benefit.  IIRC, some
programs were a little faster on some Cray vector machines,
but that was about it.

Manuel