[Haskell-cafe] Climbing up the shootout...

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 19:33:02 EDT 2008


On 2008.09.22 21:12:06 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> scribbled 0.5K characters:
> Hello Simon,
>
> Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:03:52 PM, you wrote:
>
> > With bytestrings, unboxed arrays, light-weight threads and other
> > tricks, we can usually replace all those ugly low-level programs with
> > nice high-level haskell ones
>
> i don't think that these 3 libs allows to write high-level
> high-performance code in *most* cases. just for example, try to write wc
> without using "words"
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com

<http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wc> seems to do fine; you'll notice it drops "lines" after the first version.

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gwern
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