Re: Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-24 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Sep 22, 2008, at 18:53 , Donnie Jones wrote: I'm fairly new to Haskell and the Haskell community, but I can say from my experience of hacking on GHC, the GHC team of developers are very interested in performance improvements, e.g. this thread is about performance! So Bulat, why don't you

Re: Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-23 Thread John Van Enk
Probably not, but I think you completely missed my point. Perhaps I should have originally written "my original C equivalents" rather than "the". You're probably just a better C programmer than me. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello John, > > Tuesda

Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-23 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:27:05 PM, you wrote: >> amount of work required to do this is much much more than amount of work >> required to write optimal C/asm code > I'm sorry, but no it's not. I've been using Haskell for a little > under two years now, and I'm already able to p

Re: Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-22 Thread Donnie Jones
Hello Bulat, On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello Graham, > > >> i don't think that these 3 libs allows to write high-level > >> high-performance code in *most* cases. just for example, try to write wc > >> without using "words". > > > To a newbie, th

Re: Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-22 Thread Isaac Gouy
--- Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Graham, > > >> i don't think that these 3 libs allows to write high-level > >> high-performance code in *most* cases. just for example, try to > write wc > >> without using "words". > > > To a newbie, that's a cryptic statement. Are you say

Re[6]: [Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

2008-09-22 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Graham, >> i don't think that these 3 libs allows to write high-level >> high-performance code in *most* cases. just for example, try to write wc >> without using "words". > To a newbie, that's a cryptic statement. Are you saying that these > libs aren't needed to make a high-performance "w