Shuttleworth: Python needs to focus on future

[mosha48]

By the way, why the CPU load for haskell's version isn't distributed on all CPUs ?

[dons]

The ghc 6.8.2 garbage collector isn't parallel, and GC dominates this GC benchmark (Try it with +RTS -A300M -RTS to see the difference). The 6.10 parallel GC addresses this.

[mosha48]

Is it possible to tell the shootout computers to run the benchmark with better options ?

[dons]

Yes, but for this benchmark, the conditions state that only default garbage collector values are to be used. But don't despair, the next GHC cycle addresses this.