>>>     Eh? Compiled Haskell's not all that slow. It beats scripting
>>> languages easily. Comparing it with Perl is not very illustrative of much.
>> How about compiled Perl then? Cos it beat that too...
> 
> Compiled Perl just means stored bytecode loading faster into Perl's VM/AST
> /whatever.  Same for Python or Ruby.  The bytecode is still interpreted without
> a JIT and those are still highly dynamic languages where code optimizations
> through type analysis is very much impossible.

Well OK. But given that the Perl version is presumably just making a 
half dozen calls to the internal regex engine, you'd still expect decent 
performance...

Anyway, whatever. My point is that Haskell isn't nearly as slow as 
everybody thinks it is.

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