[coyotos-dev] Accept GCJ into the tool chain?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:02 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:

> Very interesting. I have been doing a lot of reading about Scheme and 
> Haskell lately. Haskell seems to be a great language for writing (almost 
> provably) correct code and it compiles to very fast executables.
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all〈=ghc&lang2=java

This is a bit of a digression, but it's relevant to the question "Why
BitC". It's instructive to look at two other comparisons:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=gcc
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=gpp

In short, gcc/g++ win against Haskell on both memory consumption and
performance.


shap