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

[retard]

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:55:05 -0500, bearophile wrote:

> retard:
>>  - a new llvm based backend which is a lot faster
> 
> I guess most people on Reddit has not read the original thesis. The LLVM
> Haskell back-end: - Needs less code to be used by the front-end, this is
> quite positive for them. - LLVM compiles better certain heavy numerical
> kernels. So if you want to use Haskell for number crunching LLVM is
> better. While most of other Haskell code becomes a little slower.

Can you cite any sources? I'd like to know the cases where GCC is faster 
than the don's new approach.