Is there a quick-starting Haskell interpreter suitable for scripting?

Question

Does anyone know of a quick-starting Haskell interpreter that would be suitable for use in writing shell scripts? Running \'hello world\' using Hugs took 400ms on my old laptop

Answer 1

If you are really concerned with speed you are going to be hampered by re-parsing the code for every launch. Haskell doesn't need to be run from an interpreter, compile it with GHC and you should get excellent performance.