are there functional language benchmarks?

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From: Thorsten von Eicken
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 02:14

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Simple question: are there "benchmark" programs written in some functional
language available? What I mean by benchmark is a rather simple (at least
to start with) program that's easy to understand and rewrite in whatever
language is fashionable at the moment. What I mean by functional language
is mainly a statement about the mind-set behind the algorithm/coding, i.e.
I want programs which have been written for a functional language, not some
C program hacked until it's "functional".

Does this make sense? My reason for asking is that we're developing a port
of a dataflow language which has an important functional subset (Id) and
would like to compare the performance of our implementation with that of
other similar languages. We have compared to lisp and C and we're faster
than lisp and slower than C, but it's really impossible to do something
meaningful with such different languages, so it would be nice if we could
get some better comparisons.

- Thorsten von Eicken (tve@sprite.berkeley.edu)
  Computer Science Division - UC Berkeley

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