Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>   I'm not always right. Making yourself look smarter than you really are
>> is an art.
> 
> You seem to be right far more often than me.

I think the point is that word "seem" in there. ;-)

> really does is reinforce your point: you must memorise what the compiler 
> does and does not optimise to get good code.)

That's true of all high-level languages. The difference between high-level 
and low-level languages is that high-level languages can improve efficiency 
by improving the compiler far more than low-level languages can.

> end up with the impression that GHC is this super-powerful compiler that 
> can make anything go fast.

Possibly because it started out so woefully slow?

> to build a working nontrivial parser in any other language.) But maybe 

Did you see the link I posted about writing a compiler for .NET? He goes 
thru the whole thing, from lexer to code generation, on one web page.

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