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STM is a very nice parallel programming model used intensively in Haskell and Clojure. There's a F# implementation which can be found in FSharpx library. Today I'm going to test performance of both the Haskell and the F# STMs. The test is very simple - read a couple TVars, check their equality, then write them back incremented by 1, repeat a million times. First, the Haskell code: So, it took about 170 ms. OK, now F#: It took about 1,6 seconds which is an order of magnitude slower than the Haskell result. It's rather frustrating.

Let's look at what F# and Haskell can offer us while reimplementing grouping consecutive integers in C# algorithm. F#: Haskell: For my current taste, the Haskell version is more readable due to the awesome separate type annotation and to the lovely Erlang-style pattern matching on function arguments.