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> Of course you can tweak things to be fast in hakell, but to be able to actually program haskell in such a way to, beat other languages in performance, is not a trivial skill.

No kidding:

    http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test=regexdna&lang=ghc&id=2

It's mostly a matter of knowing C, then knowing how to torture GHC into doing what the C would do.

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Linking to the benchmark game as if it means something should be a bannable offense. When you look at something that encourages speed at all costs, that is what you will see. People do low level optimizations like that to gain 0.5% better performance. That does not mean you need to do anything like that to get good performance.

> That does not mean you need to do anything like that to get good performance.

Please contribute your Haskell regex-dna program that does not do anything like that and get's "good" performance.

Here's the task description: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?...

Here's "How to contribute programs": http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.php#contribute

GHC 7.8.2 installed, cabal 1.2 stuff available as-needed.

>Please contribute your Haskell regex-dna program

No. I stopped bothering with that cluster fuck like a decade ago. It is a complete waste of time.

We can stop bothering about your -- "That does not mean you need to do anything like that to get good performance."

You can do whatever you want. But drawing nonsense conclusions won't suddenly become reasonable just because you are defensive about the shootout.

My conclusion is that you've made a claim and done nothing to support that claim.

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