>Haskell compiled apps appear to be memory efficient Only in extremely contrived and highly tuned examples. Programming language shootout is not a reality 99.

>Haskell compiled apps appear to be memory efficient Only in extremely contrived and highly tuned examples. Programming language shootout is not a reality 99.999% of the community of a given language ever experience, and Haskell is a particularly egregious case of this. Haskell's performance in those benchmarks was a concerted community effort and the prevalence of various unexpected behaviors (such as space leaks) that are subtle and hard to avoid make calling it memory efficient borderline laughable. I'll go ahead and preempt No True Scotsman responses and say you can spare me using some kind of god-genius programmer as a "standard" for people who are writing Haskell.