[Haskell-cafe] Fun with ByteStrings [was: A very edgy language]

[Andrew Coppin]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
>> I guess the question that's really burning in my mind is "if ByteString
>> is so much faster than [x], why can't you just do the same optimisations
>> to [x]?" In other words, "why should I need to alter my code to get all
>> this fusion goodness?"
>
> You already get some benefit of fusion with lists:
>
> * http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/rules.htm
>
> People are working on more:
>
> * http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/supero/
> * http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CLS07.html
> * many, many others

I always have trouble tracking exactly which version(s) of GHC actually 
implement all this stuff... ;-)

Maybe I'll go find a Linux box sometime and try the head version, just 
for kicks...