Re[3]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Louis, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 4:16:10 AM, you wrote: In the meantime, a brief summary: a minor correction: the best gcc result shown in the thread was 50x faster than Don's one, so you need to miltiple all ratios by a factor of 50 Straightforward and simple Haskell code, written

Re: Re[3]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: speed: ghc vs gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Louis Wasserman
Observation: The best gcc result shown in the thread, if I recall, precomputed the result of the full computation at compiletime and simply outputted it, when we looked at the assembly. While I will accept that this could be seen as an optimization GHC should have made, I do not accept that this