Re: Lua vs. Haskell (was Re: Bridging Lua to native C/C++ code automatically)

[herviou@...]

> Hallo,
>
> On 8/29/06, Don Hopkins <dhopkins@donhopkins.com> wrote:
>>
>> Speed and memory usage of Lua -vs- SpiderMonkey:
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=javascript
>>
>
>      I already knew that Lua is better (faster/leaner) than most
> languages out there, but I certainly didn't expect it to be beaten by
> haskell. But maybe is just prejudice against haskell syntax, since
> it's just compiled once before the execution of the test.
>      Does anybody know why haskell is so better than Lua?
>
> --
> -alex
> http://www.ventonegro.org/
>

haskell is compiled it is not a byte code executed by a virtual machine. I
think this is enough to be beaten and also not to be compared with...
dh.