[clean-list] Clean versus Haskell

[Isaac Gouy]

--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Philippos Apolinarius <phi500ac at yahoo.ca> wrote:

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> I wonder why the
> Benchmarks Game site does not report such a large difference
> between Haskell and Clean performances. 

"The Benchmarks Game site does not report such a large difference between Haskell and Clean performances" because the benchmarks game measurements don't show such a large difference - 

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=clean&lang2=ghc&box=1

(Note there seems to be something wrong with the Clean reverse-complement program, preventing it processing the larger input file.)


> I believe that
> people who wrote Haskell benchmarks for the Benchmarks Game
> site cheated in using foreign pointers to access arrays.
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I believe the people who wrote Haskell benchmarks for the Benchmarks Game site made use of everything Haskell provides, just as they made use of all the processors on the quad core machine - 

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=clean&lang2=ghc&box=1