Yearly Archives: 2009

Making GHC’s I/O manager more scalable

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Data.Text 0.7 gains I/O support

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The performance of Data.Text

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Wouldn’t it be nice…

…if the world of blogging about software had by now developed some kind of a tradition of critical analysis? Over at Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee writes a careful and thoughtful review of Cornel West’s new book. It performs the
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Dense? Dense, you say?

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Criterion 0.2, an improved Haskell benchmarking library

I’m pleased to announce the availability of version 0.2 of my criterion library for Haskell performance evaluation. Compared to version 0.1, this version has some significant changes. The benchmarking API has been improved! If you’re benchmarking a pure function, you
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Announcing a major revision of the Haskell text library

I'm pleased to announce the availability of version 0.5 of text, a library that provides fast Unicode text handling for Haskell. This version contains numerous changes compared to version 0.4, in three broad categories: I made improvements to the performance
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New criterion release works on Macs

And has prettier charts, too, thanks to a patch from Tim Docker. If you already have criterion installed: $ cabal update $ cabal install –reinstall criterion If you want to use criterion on a Mac: $ cabal update $ cabal
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Criterion, a new benchmarking library for Haskell

I'm pleased to announce the availability of criterion, a new library for measuring the performance of Haskell code. Compared to most other benchmarking frameworks (for any programming language, not just Haskell), criterion focuses on being easy to use, informative, and
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Riddle me this

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