Off-topic: Haskell I/O (was Re: disabling unary "-" for

[retard]

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:33:58 -0500, bearophile wrote:

> retard:
>> Can you cite any sources? I'd like to know the cases where GCC is
>> faster than the don's new approach.
> 
> The thesis, page 52 (page 61 of the PDF):
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf

Did you notice that he kept improving the backend interoperability after 
the thesis was done? The full potential hasn't been realized yet. Also 
the thesis doesn't mention Don's genetic algorithm stuff or the stream 
fusion optimization.