Posted in haskell on May 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
Update 2009-05-28: My Haskell code is currently the fastest pidgits implementation, beating even the C code. It's also the briefest submission by a fairly large margin. Nice!
I purposely pay little attention to the Computer Language Benchmarks Game, but I couldn't resist this: Arnaud Payement wrote a nice Haskell implementation of the pidgits benchmark, which was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I just released version 0.2 of the Haskell text library that I announced back in February. This version fixes a number of bugs, but much more significantly, it adds a streaming mode: you can process a huge amount of text lazily using a small, fixed amount of memory, while maintaining high performance.
In case you need [...]
Posted in mercurial on May 15th, 2009 5 Comments »
As of about a week ago, O’Reilly’s production team has the manuscript of the Mercurial book. Thanks to everyone who has submitted so many comments during the writing process!
If you watch the Mercurial development tree, you’ll have noticed that over the past few years, I’ve done almost no work on Mercurial itself. The software has [...]
Posted in haskell on May 1st, 2009 7 Comments »
I had a wonderful time at the Bay Area Erlang Factory this morning, speaking to an Erlang audience about the different perspective that Haskell brings to functional programming. It was a relaxed and friendly crowd, and speaking to a receptive audience is always a thrill.
Here are the slides from my talk.
The other side of functional [...]
