F# .NET versus Haskell GHC fastest performance

Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	8.33	106,496	1097	32.25
F# .NET #5	9.75	111,368	912	38.19
Haskell GHC #5	10.35	11,044	842	41.05
Haskell GHC #4	43.22	11,856	665	43.96
Haskell GHC #6	12.08	24,560	1113	47.27
Haskell GHC #2	47.31	26,764	808	131.54
Haskell GHC	294.61	13,344	559	298.11
Haskell GHC #3		Make Error
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	5.02	108,192	1383	5.00
Haskell GHC #2	6.38	11,064	1883	6.46
F# .NET #3	6.91	106,624	1617	6.90
Haskell GHC	7.15	11,064	1706	7.24
F# .NET #2	7.28	108,408	1381	7.26
F# .NET #4	7.40	108,620	1290	7.38
F# .NET #5	7.47	108,388	1351	7.45
F# .NET		Bad Output
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Haskell GHC #2	5.32	11,056	403	5.32
Haskell GHC #4	1.47	11,060	987	5.68
F# .NET #4	1.60	110,572	732	5.86
F# .NET #2	1.63	109,184	853	5.90
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	3.83	140,068	933	14.86
F# .NET	4.08	140,580	877	15.88
F# .NET #5	4.09	139,916	897	15.90
Haskell GHC #2	6.57	49,752	782	26.20
Haskell GHC	37.94	263,720	621	38.46
Haskell GHC #3		Make Error
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	0.99	105,584	905	0.98
F# .NET #4	1.39	106,688	874	1.39
Haskell GHC #6	1.57	18,484	360	1.62
Haskell GHC #4	1.78	20,604	348	1.83
Haskell GHC #3	2.15	20,200	379	2.21
Haskell GHC	2.16	18,456	460	2.22
Haskell GHC #2	2.17	18,460	585	2.23
Haskell GHC #5	121.72	13,724	928	121.82
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Haskell GHC #3	1.07	404,888	2213	2.27
F# .NET #6	2.45	1,131,324	611	5.76
F# .NET #7	4.66	1,325,080	599	6.52
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Haskell GHC #6	0.84	11,056	1882	2.75
Haskell GHC #4	0.85	41,612	2013	2.79
Haskell GHC #5	0.89	11,928	2000	2.83
F# .NET #3	1.16	137,720	1350	4.13
F# .NET #4	1.29	201,344	1342	4.54
Haskell GHC	5.70	13,808	969	5.78
Haskell GHC #3	6.57	631,152	1088	6.67
Haskell GHC #2	5.51	435,952	1319	16.63
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
F# .NET #6	4.11	260,772	1907	12.92
F# .NET #2	4.54	272,540	1926	15.96
Haskell GHC #3	10.63	417,640	2261	37.47
Haskell GHC	20.96	546,876	1059	71.24
Haskell GHC #2	21.14	807,308	1486	81.68
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Haskell GHC #4	3.29	508,216	1041	3.34
Haskell GHC #2	6.47	3,814,876	998	6.56
F# .NET #4		Timed Out
F# .NET #5		Timed Out
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Haskell GHC #8	2.02	260,336	799	5.03
Haskell GHC #7	2.93	280,440	811	6.82
Haskell GHC #6	3.65	236,380	592	7.25
Haskell GHC #2	10.64	267,004	491	12.12
Haskell GHC	12.14	672,784	494	13.73
Haskell GHC #5	6.94	680,720	561	15.09
Haskell GHC #3	6.73	666,420	538	15.13
F# .NET #7	5.39	1,718,280	516	16.69
F# .NET	.NET SDK 7.0.102 Host Version: 7.0.2 Commit: d037e070eb <ServerGarbageCollection>true
Haskell GHC	The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 9.4.4 LLVM version: 13.0.1