[Nottingham] [Talk] *Tomorrow* Wednesday 04/05/2011: Haskell – Heaven and Hell?

[Mat Booth]

It is my understanding that GHC compiles to native object code and
Hugs is a bytecode interpreter. This may account for the speed
difference.


On 12 May 2011 20:39, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:
> They both conform to the same specification of Haskell 98, but GHC is
> generally faster and better supported.
>
> On 12 May 2011 16:39, Eben Till <ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> A lot of newer resources recommend ghc from what I've seen and it seems it's
>> been deprecated in the gentoo builds. I think it's mostly forgotten about.
>> Rory or someone else will definitely be able to tell you more. Also looking
>> forward to an answer (:
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> >>> Haskell – Heaven and Hell?
>>> >>> http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/04/haskell-heaven-and-hell/201
>>>
>>> Quick question:
>>>
>>> Any big differences or pros/cons between the haskell
>>> compilers/interpreters hugs98 and ghc?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
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