<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 20, 2013 12:48 AM, &quot;Dustin Strickland&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br><div>From <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison-with-project-euler-c-vs-python-vs-erlang-vs-haskell" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison-with-project-euler-c-vs-python-vs-erlang-vs-haskell</a>:<div>


<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">C: 100%<br>python: 692% (118% with pypy)<br>


erlang: 436% (135% thanks to RichardC)<br>haskell: 1421%</blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It&#39;s worth reading the first reply to this stackoverflow post where someone points out a few simple modifications to fix the haskell performance so that it is actually faster than the C implementation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When comparing programming language performance, the best resource I&#39;ve found is the Debian programming language shootout:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/">http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Johnny</div></div>
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