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The nofib Benchmark Suite
of Haskell Programs
Will Partain
University of Glasgow
Abstract
This p osition pap er describ es the need for make up of and rules of the
game for a b enchmark suite of Haskell programs It do es not include
results from running the suite Those of us working on the Glasgow
Haskell compiler hop e this suite will encourage sound quantitative as
sessment of lazy functional programming systems This version of this
pap er re ects the state of play at the initial pre release of the suite