Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs/nhc getting progressively slower

2007-05-02 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Could we have a collective thought, and decide whether we wish to either kill off all compilers that don't start with a G, or could people at least do minimal benchmarking on Hugs? I'm not quite sure what the solution is, but it probably needs some discussion. I don't think doing

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs/nhc getting progressively slower

2007-05-02 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Neil, Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 2:48:16 PM, you wrote: the right answer always, then I think its a much nicer choice. For the particular case of ByteString, type ByteString=String means you roughly import Data.List - not that much additional work or maintenance. then Binary library want

[Haskell-cafe] Hugs/nhc getting progressively slower

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi, I like to develop on Hugs, because its a nice platform to work with, and provides WinHugs, auto-reloading, sub-second compilation etc. Unfortunately some of the newer libraries (ByteString/Binary in particular) have been optimised to within an inch of their lives on GHC, at the cost of being

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs/nhc getting progressively slower

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:37 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi, I like to develop on Hugs, because its a nice platform to work with, and provides WinHugs, auto-reloading, sub-second compilation etc. Unfortunately some of the newer libraries (ByteString/Binary in particular) have been optimised