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It's always controversial to claim performance numbers without any actual evidence. Note that shootout numbers are by far not evidence about web-server performa

• jfoutz 15y ago
  Argument from authority is not much of an argument, but dons is intensely focused on ghc performance, here's an easy to google example. http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/smoking-fast-haskell-code-using-ghcs-new-llvm-codegen/ http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/smoking-fast-haskell... It's not to hard for you to go get benchmark numbers in haskell, check out http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/29/criterion-a-new-benchmarking-library-for-haskell/ http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/29/criterion-a-new-be... or read about how snap does its benchmarking. As for erlang, there's a lot of papers about reliability. I'm not saying the performance isn't there, it's just not a focus of the erlang community. You'll have a much tougher time figuring out instruction counts for a given function in erlang. Given that erlang is interpreted, without a major focus on performance, it seems unlikely erlang would be quicker. This is just - what i perceive as - the general consensus. I'd love for you to generate some numbers to prove me wrong.