I've immersed myself in the Haskell community for the past couple of years and while I'd agree that a few posts try to race a Haskell implementation against a C version, these are in the extreme minority.
I feel that you have mis-characterised a whole community, very few of whom care to make Haskell faster than C and overwhelmingly share your view that "C-grade performance is not required".
Further, in the posts I've read of people comparing to C, if anything C is held up as the benchmark as a mark of respect - not as something to cheat against, not to try to say that Haskell is better. Indeed Haskell's FFI out to C is really nice, and demonstrates the pragmatic side of this ivory-tower language :)
This post first embraces its clickbait article and then highlights that even though the Haskell version may be faster on multicore systems (at least for ascii - the unicode version may be incorrect wrt. unicode spaces), but that in practical situations without caching this may not provide any benefit. You're acting as if OP submitted his binary to Apple, *BSD and all the Linux distros with a pull request saying his is better! It's a fun post golfing some Haskell performance issues.
I feel that you have mis-characterised a whole community, very few of whom care to make Haskell faster than C and overwhelmingly share your view that "C-grade performance is not required".
Further, in the posts I've read of people comparing to C, if anything C is held up as the benchmark as a mark of respect - not as something to cheat against, not to try to say that Haskell is better. Indeed Haskell's FFI out to C is really nice, and demonstrates the pragmatic side of this ivory-tower language :)
This post first embraces its clickbait article and then highlights that even though the Haskell version may be faster on multicore systems (at least for ascii - the unicode version may be incorrect wrt. unicode spaces), but that in practical situations without caching this may not provide any benefit. You're acting as if OP submitted his binary to Apple, *BSD and all the Linux distros with a pull request saying his is better! It's a fun post golfing some Haskell performance issues.