That's actually something I've been saying for quite awhile when people bring up microbenchmarks complaining about how a language like Haskell is slow. Like, y

That's actually something I've been saying for quite awhile when people bring up microbenchmarks complaining about how a language like Haskell is slow. Like, yes, no question, if you try and implement a tightloop in Haskell vs C, C is going to come out a lot faster. However, no one writes Haskell like that! People rely pretty heavily on standard libraries (or even third party libraries), and on the optimizations afforded to them by the "rich" language of Haskell. C might be capable of being faster, but that doesn't imply that a C program will inherently be faster than a similar Haskell program, especially if the programs are relatively large.