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Re:When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages by eru on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:09AM (#10289990)
By 95% of performance you are surely measuring throughput on a logarithmic scale or something? Haskell is great, but getting within C performance requires careful very careful Haskell writing at least.
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Re:When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages by conceit on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:25AM (#10290039)
Well of course but you need to know what you are doing in C as well. Isn't the point just, a lot of people do, as compared to Haskell? Granted, the C compilers make a difference, too.
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Re:When Rust Makes Sense, or The State of Typed Languages by eru on Monday September 28, 2015 @08:53AM (#10290169)
Yes.

In Haskell you get correct by default and have to work for speed. In C your program is fast by default, but wrong, and you have to work for correctness.

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