are there functional language benchmarks?

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2 total messages Started by Thorsten von Eicken Fri, 28 Dec 1990 02:14

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Author: 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

Re: are there functional language benchmarks?

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Author: Alwyn Goodloe
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 1990 16:59

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     Dear net readers I know that this has been asked before but I have never
seen any responses posted. I am compiling a list of functional languages 
available for the PC (DOS or 386 UNIX). So far the list is vary short its'
contents are several dialicts of LISP, PC HOPE and the recently announced 
RUFL. Does anyone know of others. I am sure that several of the larger 
UNIX based languages such as SML NJ could eaisly be ported to UNIX 386 
based systems, has anyone tried?




                                               Alwyn E. Goodloe
                                            agoodloe@gmuvax2.gmu.edu

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