[asdf1234]

> The new Haskell IO manager in GHC 7.8 completely blows this out of the water.

Go will still outperform Haskell by a huge margin and the typical Go process will have a much smaller memory footprint.

I don't even like Go, but nobody choosing Go is realistically considering Haskell as an alternative.

[samth]

I encourage you to look a the benchmarks published here: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03... which includes Haskell beating nginx and Haskell beating SDN controllers written in C++ and in Java.

[tel]

I'm not so sure that is true. I'd love to see some benchmarking, though.

[platz]

I don't like go either, but I won't believe that a ghc webserver is a fast as a go webserver until we can see it in the techempower benchmarks.

[coolsunglasses]

The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6, and the Golang devs have been tuning Go's core libraries to win at this specific benchmark.

[jlouis]

Even then, it is only a factor of 2 slower. That is next to nothing.

[coolsunglasses]

Right, precisely, and this is at a very silly tier of microbenchmarking where you're doing little to no actual work, something you virtually won't ever find in the "real world".

[fjh]

> The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6

7.4, last time I checked.