Haskell GHC programs versus C gcc by benchmark task performance fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 15.41 3,280 1113 60.92 99% 98% 100% 100% C gcc 8.66 980 910 34.22 100% 97% 100% 100% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 4.05 3,960 987 15.71 100% 97% 97% 95% C gcc 2.00 1,300 569 7.89 99% 99% 100% 99% n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 21.91 4,068 1883 21.91 100% 1% 0% 0% C gcc 9.12 1,176 1490 9.12 1% 100% 2% 2% reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 5.85 501,324 1020 7.82 13% 8% 100% 13% C gcc 1.78 994,444 1438 3.96 42% 49% 96% 42% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 40.22 523,084 1059 141.80 91% 88% 88% 87% C gcc 6.67 130,160 1506 19.33 76% 50% 92% 75% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 11.66 38,588 782 46.53 100% 100% 100% 100% C gcc 1.64 29,424 1135 6.53 99% 100% 100% 100% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 9.56 5,164 969 10.09 100% 2% 2% 3% C gcc 1.32 2,912 2268 5.25 100% 99% 100% 99% binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC 25.13 711,956 494 52.23 91% 37% 36% 45% C gcc 2.44 133,956 836 7.57 80% 65% 68% 100% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC Make Error C gcc 0.06 ? 452 0.06 86% 14% 0% 83% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Haskell GHC Make Error C gcc 0.02 ? 1230 0.05 100% 100% 50% 100% Haskell GHC The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.4.1 C gcc gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3) 7.2.0 vs C vs C++ vs Java vs OCaml