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"is better than Go in perhaps every measurable way" speed of execution, speed of compilation.
by ptomato 17y ago
"is better than Go in perhaps every measurable way"
speed of execution, speed of compilation.
- jrockway 17y agoYes, you are perhaps right about speed of compilation. I do my Haskell hacking in the REPL, so the number of times I actually compile my projects is minimal. I have never thought, "this is taking way too long, what a drag". There may also be a factor of 2 execution speed advantage for a few things that Go lets you directly write in a CPU-friendly way. But the slow part of a Twitter client is waiting for Twitter. In fact, even Twitter isn't written in Go or Haskell or C, and it still works fine.
- ptomato 17y ago"But the slow part of a Twitter client is waiting for Twitter." Undoubtedly. But if we're going from the position of systems programming languages speed of execution is inevitably going to be a factor. And you did say every measurable way... so what other measurable ways did you have in mind?
- jrockway 17y agoI should have not used the word "measurable".