That depends on a couple of things. First it assumes as fast as C is the goal, for my project the goal was faster startup than Perl and more safety. Also I reme

That depends on a couple of things. First it assumes as fast as C is the goal, for my project the goal was faster startup than Perl and more safety. Also I remember hearing the requirements of the benchmarks had to be changed to prevent Haskell form lazily evaluating it's way to first place. I know in my case lazy evaluation is part of one of my optimizations.