1) Nowhere in my comment did I say C is closer to the machine.
2) Despite #1 C is still closer to the machine than Haskell, and I'm not sure how you could maintain otherwise
3) Nearly all of the C optimizations will, at best, make a speedup by a constant factor. Things that add (or remove) an O(n) factor in Haskell can and do happen.
2) Despite #1 C is still closer to the machine than Haskell, and I'm not sure how you could maintain otherwise
3) Nearly all of the C optimizations will, at best, make a speedup by a constant factor. Things that add (or remove) an O(n) factor in Haskell can and do happen.