paul:
> Neil Mitchell wrote:
>
> >>>- Larger memory footprint
> >
> >
> >You are talking about GHC, not Haskell. Take a look at nhc98, which
> >has a small memory footprint.
>
> I don't want to get into a compiler flame war. The fact is that if you
> want to do huge datasets or very fast computation (the two tend to go
> together) then Haskell is the wrong language. This isn't an attack on
> Haskell, its a straightforward look at the strengths and weaknesses of the
> language.
It's not always clear that it won't work for very fast computation:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=partialsums&lang=all
In general I would say GHC/Haskell was very very fast, as long as you
know what you're doing.
-- Don
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