Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurrency. Give it some love.

Re:Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurre... by gaius on Thursday August 20, 2009 @04:57PM (#776226)

Haskell has amazing potential... But it's hard to argue with Erlang (running Ericsson's 24/7 real-money business), OCaml (running Jane Street's 24/7 real-money business) and so on. Is there anyone with serious performance and reliability requirements that's bet the farm on Haskell (yet)?

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Re:Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurre... by olefoo on Thursday August 20, 2009 @05:09PM (#776267)

http://www.galois.com/ is a mostly haskell shop.

It's definitely an interesting language; but I would see it as more competitive with C, C++ or Java as a language for building high reliability components.

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Re:Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurre... by Xichekolas on Thursday August 20, 2009 @06:23PM (#776477)

I'm starting my grad career under one of the co-founders of Galois (Andy Gill), and one of his projects while there was to build some kind of VHDL generator tool for encryption (I only saw a high level description in a presentation, so I may not be entirely accurate describing it as such).

It created layouts that performed over 10% faster than the best hand-tuned layouts at the time. My understanding is that it was for the DoD.

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