Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 1:44:45 PM, you wrote:
I wanted to write to inform you how shocked I was to see the great
advances in performance in the Glorious Haskell Compiler over the
last year or so. Of course, we have also benefited from some great
contributions by the folks on the Haskell-Cafe mailing list.
it's nice to read but completely false, you know. GHC don't improved
it's speed over last year, 6.4.2 differs from 6.4 only in reliability
areas
source of this great progress is really work of Haskell fans,
especially Donald Bruce Stewart. moreover, i quickly scanned the tests
where GHC still far behind it's competition and in most cases speed is
determined by libraries.
This is the great thing. Not only are we already doing quite well, but
we know there are substantial improvements still to be had.
.. (and jhc already generates native C code, so it will have at least
> one substantial advantage over GHC) ...
Compiling via C is a dead end. We realised this about 5 years ago, and
yet we still haven't managed to shake off the C backend from GHC, but I
remain hopeful that one day we will. /me heads for the cafe...
Cheers,
Simon
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