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

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Andrew,

Sunday, July 8, 2007, 7:12:38 PM, you wrote:
>>> (Realistically though. My program takes a [Word8] and turns it into a
>>> [Bool] before running a parser over it. The GHC optimiser doesn't really 
>>> stand a hope in hell of optimising that into a program that reads a machine 
>>> word into a CPU register and starts playing with bit flips on it...)
>>>     
>>
>> Actually, if you're very lucky (fusion is just as hard in Haskell as it
>> is in real life), it *does*.  It seems to fit nicely into the
>> stream-fusion framework.
>>   

> Ooo... really? That's pretty impressive...(!)

it's our collective tale for bringing new haskellers. i bet that
Stefan never seen asm code generated by ghc :)


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com