A lot of work has been gone into GHC and its libraries. However for some use cases C is still preferred, for obvious speed reasons - because optimizing an Haskell application can take much time.
Is there any document describing why there is no ghc --strict flag making all code strict by default? Wouldn't this make it easier to apply Haskell to some additional fields such as video processing etc? Wouldn't such a '--strict' flag turn Haskell/GHC into a better C/gcc compiler? Projects like this: https://github.com/thoughtpolice/strict-ghc-plugin show that the idea is not new. Eg some time ago I had to do some logfile analysis. I ended doing it in PHP because optimizing the Haskell code took too much time. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
