On: Building on Rock, Not Sand

[s_kilk]

My money's on Go.

[rlonstein → s_kilk]

> My money's on Go.

Based on submission history, I'd guess Haskell.

[weberc2 → rlonstein]

Seems like it would be hard to get Haskell to run 8/9 as fast as C. Haskell is much harder to reason about performance than Go or C, and it's pretty easy to make a seemingly innocuous change that slows your program dramatically.

[tome → weberc2]

> Seems like it would be hard to get Haskell to run 8/9 as fast as C.

The typical factor mentioned in the Haskell world is 1/2 the performance of C.

[s_kilk → rlonstein]

Ah, now that’s intriguing! Thanks