If you switch to ByteString
and stick with plain Haskell lists (instead of vectors) you will get a more efficient solution. You may also rewrite the solve function with a single left fold and bypass zip and right scan (1).
Overall, on my machine, I get 20 times performance improvement compared to your Haskell solution (2).
Below Haskell code performs faster than the F# code:
import Data.List (unfoldr)
import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
import Control.Monad (replicateM_)
import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
import qualified Data.ByteString as B
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as C
parse :: ByteString -> [Int]
parse = unfoldr $ C.readInt . C.dropWhile (== ' ')
solve :: [Int] -> Int
solve xs = foldl go (const 0) xs minBound
where go f x s = if s < x then f x else s - x + f s
main = do
[n] <- parse <$> B.getLine
replicateM_ n $ B.getLine >> B.getLine >>= print . solve . parse
1. See edits for an earlier version of this answer which implements solve
using zip
and scanr
.
2. HackerRank website shows even a larger performance improvement.