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HaBench: The Haskell Benchmark Suite
Recent discussions have illustrated the need for an up-to-date Haskell benchmark suite. The goal would be to package a number of representative benchmarks, written in Haskell, which users can run on their machine. Gathering (and publishing) performance numbers for these benchmarks on a number of different machines will hopefully help in guiding future development of both Haskell compilers and programs.
Contributors
* Kenneth Hoste - boegel on #haskell@FreeNode (ideas/advice/Wiki page maintainer)
* Donald Bruce Stewart - dons on #haskell@FreeNode (darcs repo maintainer (probably))
* Andy Georges - Itkovian on #haskell@FreeNode (measurements/analysis/advice)
* John Meacam - JohnMeacam on #haskell@FreeNode (advice/JHC support)
* Arthur van Leeuwen - earthy on #haskell@FreeNode (Computer Language Shootout man-on-the-insde)
* <add your name here if you want to contribute!>
Ideas
* start from the (out-of-date?) nofib benchmark suite (GHC-only, includes ghcisms) (website) * include Computer Language Shootout submissions (website) * microbenchmarks for comparison with C (for example bytecopying) (dons) * both a Haskell98 and Haskell'-only (sub)suite (JohnMeacam) * multiple Haskell compilers (GHC, JHC, ...) * maintain benchmark according to Hackage (Hackage list) * [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_and_tools Libraries and tools in Haskell|
Notes
Random notes are below.
* (JohnMeacham) Insert non-formatted text here pretty much every compiler has a mode similar to 'ghc --make', so just let the user specify an arbitrary command line for the compiler to use, like 'jhc -v -flint $< -o $@' or 'ghc --make $< -o $@'
More info?
* #haskell IRC channel at Freenode * initial thread @ Haskell mailing list * follow-up thread @ Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Comments
Comments? Feel free to add them! Suggestions? Mail Kenneth at kenneth [dot] hoste [at] elis [dot] ugent [dot] be .