Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

2007-07-16 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Jon, Sunday, July 15, 2007, 9:46:42 PM, you wrote: This should tell you that your C++ is not very good. This is several times faster, for example: For some reason you were using C-style allocation rather than the C++ STL to implement a bit vector. The STL implementation is optimized.

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

2007-07-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Alex, Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 12:25:00 AM, you wrote: So you think we use C because we like it? :-) When this revolutionary tool of yours arrive that compiles Haskell to PIC devices, I'm gonna be the first to use it. 20 years ago it was hard to imagine that $30 processor may be

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

2007-07-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Hugh, Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 11:26:43 PM, you wrote: Just a random observation: the competition for Haskell is not really C or C++.  C is basically dead; C++ is only really useful when you dont want people to be able to read your source code.  btw, in his HOPL paper

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

2007-07-11 Thread ok
On 11 Jul 2007, at 9:56 pm, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:Java comes close to being competition, but it's slow and eats memory never checked it myself, but people say that modern Java implementations are as fast as C# and close to C++ speeds People will say anything, but before believing this