The Computer Language
24.04 Benchmarks Game

Haskell GHC versus F# .NET 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 8.37 31,488 1103 32.55
F# .NET #5 9.84 36,572 927 38.67
Haskell GHC #5 11.28 19,644 850 44.70
Haskell GHC #4 50.67 19,768 671 51.56
Haskell GHC #6 15.24 21,632 1123 59.78
F# .NET 91.91 49,912 558 96.68
Haskell GHC #2 46.08 25,600 815 139.01
Haskell GHC 281.08 19,644 567 287.17
Haskell GHC #3   Make Error  
n-body
source secs mem gz cpu secs
F# .NET #6 4.97 34,020 1395 4.95
F# .NET #5 5.01 34,008 1363 5.00
F# .NET #4 6.88 34,256 1296 6.87
F# .NET #3 6.92 32,088 1624 6.89
F# .NET #2 7.39 34,188 1387 7.37
F# .NET 7.76 49,484 1272 7.82
Haskell GHC #2 11.05 19,668 1888 11.20
Haskell GHC 14.80 19,796 1713 15.00
spectral-norm
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Haskell GHC #4 1.48 19,796 994 5.70
F# .NET #4 1.62 36,224 738 6.01
Haskell GHC #2 21.48 19,796 410 21.63
F# .NET #2   Timed Out  
mandelbrot
source secs mem gz cpu secs
F# .NET #2 7.22 38,032 1054 28.29
Haskell GHC #2 12.34 45,184 789 49.13
Haskell GHC 52.21 260,352 628 53.00
F# .NET #5   Make Error  
F# .NET   Make Error  
F# .NET #6   Make Error  
Haskell GHC #3   Make Error  
pidigits
source secs mem gz cpu secs
F# .NET #6 0.97 31,460 917 0.95
F# .NET #4 1.35 33,388 887 1.37
Haskell GHC #6 1.59 19,668 368 1.65
Haskell GHC #4 1.80 19,796 355 1.87
Haskell GHC #3 2.17 19,796 387 2.25
Haskell GHC #2 2.19 19,796 592 2.26
Haskell GHC 2.22 19,796 466 2.29
Haskell GHC #5 119.18 19,668 934 119.32
regex-redux
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Haskell GHC #3 1.07 411,520 2219 2.28
F# .NET #2 4.63 852,508 437 4.87
F# .NET #6 1.76 860,064 622 5.19
F# .NET #7 4.50 1,397,868 610 6.36
F# .NET   Bad Output  
F# .NET #4   Bad Output  
fasta
source secs mem gz cpu secs
F# .NET #3 1.14 72,032 1361 4.13
F# .NET #4 1.24 90,032 1355 4.62
Haskell GHC #4 1.89 41,216 2017 4.73
Haskell GHC #5 2.45 19,652 2004 6.27
Haskell GHC #6 2.35 19,648 1885 6.49
Haskell GHC 7.23 19,644 975 7.32
Haskell GHC #3 8.72 616,692 1091 8.84
Haskell GHC #2 6.27 438,784 1323 19.11
k-nucleotide
source secs mem gz cpu secs
F# .NET #2 4.71 198,872 1932 16.34
F# .NET #5 4.92 198,784 1964 16.53
F# .NET #3 12.07 1,322,292 1124 26.04
F# .NET #4 10.47 1,321,944 1522 26.43
Haskell GHC 22.83 659,584 1067 77.84
F# .NET 24.10 1,108,380 713 83.78
Haskell GHC #2 22.61 802,944 1492 87.50
Haskell GHC #3 37.00 413,952 2266 133.16
F# .NET #6   Make Error  
reverse-complement
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Haskell GHC #4 3.76 505,600 1047 3.82
Haskell GHC #2 6.81 3,812,096 998 6.90
F# .NET 37.87 1,962,472 603 39.22
F# .NET #4   Timed Out  
F# .NET #5   Timed Out  
binary-trees
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Haskell GHC #8 2.38 256,828 807 5.96
Haskell GHC #7 3.18 298,112 817 7.81
Haskell GHC #6 4.08 242,720 601 8.35
F# .NET 10.25 1,214,512 517 12.10
Haskell GHC 13.52 669,824 500 15.19
F# .NET #7 5.26 1,671,736 527 15.45
Haskell GHC #3 6.91 650,240 544 15.45
Haskell GHC #5 7.34 674,944 567 15.67
Haskell GHC #2 14.46 263,936 498 16.05
Haskell GHC

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell
Compilation System,
version 9.4.8
LLVM version 17.0.2

F# .NET

.NET SDK 8.0.200
Host Version: 8.0.2
Commit: 1381d5ebd2
<ServerGarbageCollection>true
F# 8.0