RE: Cygwin binary?

2004-03-19 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Igor. | We don't support targeting Cygwin, I'm afraid. Details here: | | | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/winbuild.html | | Various people have worked to provide libraries offering Posix-like | facilities for Haskell on Windows, to ease the kind of porting you are | tryin

RE: Data.HashTable bug

2004-03-19 Thread Simon Marlow
Yup, that's it. It does indeed go nice and fast with GHC 5.04.3, but slows down with 6.2. This is because 6.2 is using the new Data.PackedString library, which is unoptimised. (the code also needs a fix to hashPS for 6.2: indexPS is 0-based rather than 1-based). Cheers, Simon > Does

RE: Data.HashTable bug

2004-03-19 Thread Josef Svenningsson
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Simon Marlow wrote: > I did post a hash table version of this program a while back, that I > claimed was a factor of 3 faster at the time. Unfortunately the > attachment in the archive is in base64 and I can't read it, and I've > lost the code :-( If you can decode the attac

RE: Data.HashTable bug

2004-03-19 Thread Simon Marlow
> looking at `The Great Computer Language Shootout' mentioned in another > thread, I wanted to try if Data.HashTable gives better results than > Data.FiniteMap for the spell checker test > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/spellcheck/ > > I came up with the attached program. With data

Re: Haskell performance

2004-03-19 Thread Sébastien Pierre
Hi ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still unsure of whether Haskell would be a good competitor against other languages in my case, but it seems like if it does the best option would be to reuse C++ graph libraries and carefully write a wrapper around them to minimize passing values between C and