efficiency of functional programs

1999-09-28 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
To my benchmark proposal with the determinant programs Juergen Pfitzenmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > The setting for the suggested benchmark needs some clarification. For > a dense matrix of sufficient size haskell should be able to beat C. > I think Sergey knows this and therefor didn't

Re: efficiency of functional programs

1999-09-28 Thread George Russell
"S.D.Mechveliani" wrote: [snip] > And why the dense matrix representation is better for Haskell? > Rather i would expect it is the sparse one. I really don't think this kind of comparison is going to be very meaningful. I've written some sparse matrix code in C myself. Since memory is often as im

Re: efficiency of functional programs

1999-09-27 Thread Juergen Pfitzenmaier
Sergey Mechveliani wrote: > Maybe we arrange some simple and clear benchmark? The setting for the suggested benchmark needs some clarification. For a dense matrix of sufficient size haskell should be able to beat C. I think Sergey knows this and therefor didn't mention a benchmark involving a spa

efficiency of functional programs

1999-09-23 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Many times in this list people said that Haskell is in-efficient in comparison to non-functional tools, like C and others. And often refer to the matrix operations, linear algebra tasks, saying how the arrays are useful and how they need to be mutable. Maybe we arrange some simple and clear bench