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GHC I/O manager progress: ready to merge, and paper accepted!
Thanks to diligent work by Johan, our new I/O manager is ready to merge into the main GHC tree. All the tests pass, and it’s performing well. I’ll post an update when it gets merged into HEAD. We also heard…
Posted in haskell
Sightings of the GHC event manager in the wild
After a few months of blissfully doing precious little hacking in our spare time, Johan and I have returned to work on the new event manager for GHC. I spent the past few days writing a paper about the motivation,…
Posted in haskell, open source
What’s in a parser? Attoparsec rewired (2/2)
In my first of this pair of articles, I laid out some of the qualities I've been looking for in a parsing library.Before I dive back into detail, I want to show off some numbers. The new Attoparsec code is…
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What’s in a parsing library? (1/2)
My goal in working on the new GHC I/O manager has been to get the Haskell network stack into a state where it could be used to attack high-performance and scalable networking problems, domains in which it has historically been…
Posted in haskell, Uncategorized
Minuscule linkscrape of mischief
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
Progress on GHC’s I/O manager
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…
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