[Haskell-cafe] Toy compression algorithms [was: A very edgy language]

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Donald,

Sunday, July 8, 2007, 12:50:36 PM, you wrote:

>>

too much quoting :(

> Good work. Probably worth benchmarking against the other compression
> libraries

are you really want to totally discredit Haskell? :)  they should be
hundreds of times slower than any practical compression algorithm
(and btw, zlib/bzlib isn't good performers anyway, my own algorithm is
several times faster with the same compression ratio)

Haskell isn't a good tool to develop compression algorithms because
it's the very well studied area where it has meaning to use all the
sorts of optimizations. so it falls in the "low-level algorithms"
category where using Haskell means at least 3x slower development and
3x worse performance - or faster development with 100x worse
performance. Andrew's code should fall into later category


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com