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"Haskell is easier to optimize than C" != "Haskell is faster than C".

• shrughes 14y ago
  Are you writing that in Haskell or in C? Because in Haskell, you'd want to use the /= operator. In C, you'd want to use strcmp.
  • vajrabum 14y ago
    I think you meant strncmp. Nobody ever wants strcmp, not if they know what it does.
    • tedunangst 14y ago
      You don't know what you're talking about.
    • shrughes 14y ago
      We know what it does and it's the right thing to use. You must be thinking of strncpy or some other ennified string.h function.
• dllthomas 14y ago
  If Haskell is easier to optimize than C, then it could easily be that there's some amount of programmer effort, for which expending that much effort in Haskell yields a faster program than expending that much effort in C. If that amount of effort is in the range of effort most people are able to expend on a class of projects, then Haskell is faster than C for those projects. It may even be that those are most projects. It is, of course, not the case that Haskell is faster than C with arbitrary effort expended tuning to the specific hardware - no one is claiming that.