tve@sprite.berkeley.edu (Thorsten von Eicken) (12/28/90)
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
agoodloe@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Alwyn Goodloe) (01/01/91)
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