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Re:Fashionable Problems by the_af on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:41AM (#21864266)
> "[Lisp and] Haskell don't produce very efficient code (or make it hard to produce efficient code)."

Curious here. Are you speaking from experience -- i.e. you tried and failed -- or is this simply something you guess must be true? People write high-performance software in Haskell, and it's their tool of choice.

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Re:Fashionable Problems by jcelerier on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:05PM (#21865036)
> People write high-performance software in Haskell, and it's their tool of choice.

I've heard of those but have never managed to see one. Do you have some examples ? (to give you my "baseline" - handling >500k messages/second on a desktop cpu for instance as this is something quite easily achievable in C++)

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