ANN: deepseq-bounded, seqaid, leaky
Andrew Seniuk
rasfar at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 13:07:33 UTC 2014
This trio of related packages explores strictness control in a variety of
ways.
deepseq-bounded provides classes and generic functions to artificially
force evaluation, to extents controlled by static or dynamic configuration.
seqaid puts that into practise, providing a GHC plugin to auto-instrument
your package with a strictness harness, which is dynamically optimisable
during runtime. This is supported directly in the GHC compilation
pipeline, without requiring (or performing!) any edits to your sources.
leaky is a minimal, prototypic executable that leaks space under current
state-of-the-art compilation (GHC 7.8.3 -O2, at the present time).
deepseq-bounded
hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/deepseq-bounded
homepage: http://www.fremissant.net/deepseq-bounded
seqaid
hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/seqaid
homepage: http://www.fremissant.net/seqaid
leaky
hackage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/leaky
homepage: http://www.fremissant.net/leaky
Reddit discussion for the three together:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2ps8f5/ann_deepseqbounded_seqaid_leaky/
Easiest way to try them all, is to install seqaid and run the demo:
cabal install seqaid
seqaid demo
This tests seqaid on a local copy of the leaky source package.
It turned out to be routine to extend deepseq-bounded and seqaid to
dynamically configurable parallelisation (paraid?). Many other wrappers
could be explored, too! Maybe seqaid should be renamed to koolaid or
something...
It's a pretty complicated system, and just first release, so there's bound
to be lots of problems. I've not set up a bug tracker, but will maintain a
casual list of bugs and feature requests at
http://www.fremissant.net/seqaid/trac
and will set up a proper tracker if there's interest.
Any isssues (or comments), I'm here, or on the reddit discussion (or email).
Andrew Seniuk
rasfar on #haskell
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