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Its more a matter of trying to nix the "Haskell would be nice, but its too slow to be practical" line that many see as a killer.
by PaulAJ 14y ago
Its more a matter of trying to nix the "Haskell would be nice, but its too slow to be practical" line that many see as a killer.
- chc 14y agoDoes Haskell really have a reputation for being slow? In a world where Ruby is the de facto standard for startups, I wouldn't think Haskell would have anything to worry about.
- chongli 14y agoIt does. A lot of people have written ignorant blog posts whereby they show their first "real" Haskell program is extremely slow compared to their heavily optimized C version (with years of experience behind it). A cursory glance at the code, however, reveals that their Haskell program is using linked lists of linked lists of boxed arbitrary precision integers while the C version uses a 2D array of ints. Okay, perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea.