[Haskell-cafe] Re: Functional programming for processing of large raster images

[Joel Reymont]

I think the issue wasn't using functional programming for large image  
processing, it was using Haskell. OCaml is notoriously fast and  
strict. Haskell/GHC is... lazy.

Everyone knows that laziness is supposed to be a virtue. In practice,  
though, I'm one of the people who either can't wrap their heads  
around it or just find themselves having to fight it from the start.

Should we all switch to OCaml? I wish I had a criteria to determine  
when to use Haskell and when to use OCaml.

On Jun 21, 2006, at 8:15 AM, minh thu wrote:

> Thanks for pointing this out, although I knew that kind of answer via
> papers about Pan.
> It means I'll have to improve my compiler writing knowlegde :)
> mt
>
> 2006/6/21, oleg at pobox.com <oleg at pobox.com>:
>>
>> Recently Vo Minh Thu wondered if Haskell (or, I generalize,  
>> functional
>> programming) can be of much use for computer graphics programming.
>>
>> I'd like to point out a project that experimentally shown that
>> functional programming is of great help for processing of large  
>> raster
>> images (24-bit PPM files). The paper describing the system has been
>> accepted for `Science of Computer Programming' and is in press:

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