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A new pseudo-random number generator for Haskell

I just released version 0.3.3 of the Haskell statistics library, which contains a very fast pseudo-random number generator. The generator is an implementation of George Marsaglia’s MWC256 multiply-with-carry PRNG, which has a period of 28222 (for this reason, it’s sometimes
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A video demo of my Haskell benchmarking framework

Malcolm Wallace has very kindly put a lot of work into publishing video footage from all of the talks at last week’s Haskell Implementor’s Workshop. I gave a very brief, and completely unscripted, demo of the benchmarking framework that I’ve
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Lazy functional yak shaving in Haskell

A few weeks ago, I decided that I'd like to focus for a while on getting a 1.0 release of the Haskell text library ready. That work has gone fairly well so far. I've focused on making sure that I
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In which I write again about revision control

Several months ago, I wrote an article on evaluating revision control systems. It was initially published in ACM Queue a few weeks ago, and the article has now made its way (unchanged) to Communications of the ACM. I’m quite happy
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Slides from my CUFP 2009 keynote talk

I was delighted to be invited to give the keynote talk at this year’s CUFP workshop in Edinburgh. My talk was this morning, and these are the slides I presented. CUFP 2009 Keynote – Real World HaskellView more documents from
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Haskell Platform support for Fedora: we’re almost there

I spent a little time earlier today clarifying the Fedora project‘s support for the Haskell Platform. You can read the details here; the summary is that we’re currently four packages short of complete support for the current release of the
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First steps with Haskell text API improvement

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What’s in a text API?

Now that I’ve got the DEFUN 2009 schedule sorted out (you are coming, aren’t you?), I’ve had time to take a breath and think about the Haskell text library again. Its API is currently a clone of the ancient and
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Case conversion and text 0.3

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Dealing with encoding errors in Data.Text

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