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Big fucking deal
Quoth Wikipedia: Big data[1][2] is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The challenges include capture, curation, storage,[3] search, sharing, transfer, analysis,[4]…
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What’s in a number? criterion edition
[Edit: a few hours after I wrote this post, I wrote some code to get rid of the inflation phenomenon it describes, and I'll publish a corresponding update to criterion shortly. See below for details, and the bottom for a…
Posted in haskell
What’s good for C++ is good for … Haskell!?
A few days ago, my Facebook colleague Andrei Alexandrescu posted a note entitled Three Optimization Tips for C++, which reminded me that I had unfinished business with Haskell’s text package. I took his code, applied it to the text package,…
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A major new release of the Haskell hashable library
I have spent quite some time over the last couple of months improving the Haskell hashable library, and all of my efforts eventually turned into a near-complete rewrite of the library. The 1.2 release of hashable is not backwards compatible,…
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A fast new SipHash implementation in Haskell
I’ve recently been talking with Johan Tibell about submitting his hashable package to become a part of the Haskell Platform. Once we get that submission accepted, we can fold Johan’s excellent hash-based data structures from his unordered-containers package into the…
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The case of the mysterious explosion in space
The case of the mysterious explosion in space A few months ago, reports began to filter in of an unhappy problem with the Haskell text package: it was causing huge object files to be generated when a file contained lots…
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Performance: yes, it’s worth looking at the small stuff
While I was in New York for QCon last week, the temperatures started out quite mild, but soared back to their usual sweltering summertime levels by midweek. I thus found myself confined to my hotel room for a few hours…
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(re)announcing statprof, a statistical profiler for Python
Back in 2005, Andy Wingo wrote a neat little statistical profiler named statprof that promptly disappeared into obscurity. It has since languished almost unknown, with a handful of people writing semi-private forks that themselves seem to be dead. Statistical profiling…
Posted in open source, python
github is making me feel stupid(er)
I’m approaching my fourth anniversary of using github. I should hardly have to state that it’s a wonderful service, and especially so for being kept freely available to the open source community. At the same time, I’ve noticed over the…
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aeson 0.4: easier, faster, better
After months of work, and a number of great contributions from other developers, I just released version 0.4 of aeson, the de facto standard Haskell JSON library. This is a major release, with a number of improvements. Enjoy! Ease of…
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