On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:16:10 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: > >> On Apr 26, 7:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve >> +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:55 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: >>> > I often wonder what the world would be like if Python, C#, and Java >>> > embraced value types more, and had better support for pure functions. >>> >>> They would be slower, require more memory, >> >> Funny, Haskell frequently beats C in both categories. > > I'm seeing code generated by the Haskell GHC compiler being 2-4 times > slower than code from the C gcc compiler, and on average using 2-3 times > as much memory (and as much as 7 times).
Also, I don't see a Python interpreter written in Haskell that's outperforming CPython. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list