While I’ve been in my corner hacking on low-level Haskell nonsense, apparently someone figured out how to make the internets more better. To wit, a few judiciously curated sources of visual edification: for great justice unhappy hipsters riot right click
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
Johan and I are hard at work getting the new I/O manager for GHC into shape. He published some numbers earlier today describing the dramatic performance difference between GHC's current timeout support and ours. Here, I'd like to talk about another aspect of performance: sending and receiving data. We have a very simple benchmark that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11th, 2010 5 Comments »
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working with Johan Tibbell on an event library to use for replacing GHC’s existing I/O manager. The work has been progressing rather nicely: I now have both the epoll and kqueue back ends working, while Johan has been focusing on a fast priority queue data structure [...]
