[Fwd: Re: [clean-list] Clean versus Haskell]

[Adrian Hey]

Hello Philippos,

Adrian Hey wrote:
> GHC has a long standing performance bug for garbage collection and
> mutable arrays:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/650

BTW, I forgot to mention that this bug does not affect unboxed arrays.
I see you've used a boxed STArray. You might get a fairer idea of ghc
performance using STUArray (at least for types that are unboxable).

Regards
--
Adrian Hey