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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by strager on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @04:36PM (#6214060)
Have you tried precompiling with -O2? IIRC runhaskell runs code like GHCi: interpreted bytecode by default (for source .hs files).
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Re:Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers by payload on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @06:53PM (#6214925)
Yes I have and I invite you to do it also by yourself to check it. There is no significant difference in this benchmark between "ghc -O2" and "runhaskell". I didn't investigated why... but I would be very interested in the details :)

Also "-threaded" gives the usual penalty of bookkeeping and bad caching and stuff. You don't need threads in such a benchmark. Though I am mildly surprised that "node" runs faster with multiple processes :)

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