Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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...

yes.  Something more is getting in the way.

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

It's not slow at all.  It's just not nearly as fast as C/C++, but then, few are.
 And fewer are as high level and concise as Haskell. :)

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