[Haskell-cafe] ANN: generic-deepseq 1.0.0.0

[Johan Tibell]

2012/2/23 Maxime Henrion <mhenrion at gmail.com>:
> According to criterion, the performance of the old generic-deepseq code
> was 6 to 7 times worse than that of the deepseq package. After switching
> the class function to rnf, it got on par, if not better than the deepseq
> package. I'm saying "if not", because I've observed contradicting
> results from criterion, when I ran benchmarks for both packages at once,
> and when I ran those separately. When running both at once,
> generic-deepseq is slower than deepseq, except for the test with the
> bigger list (see report-both.html). When ran separately, generic-deepseq
> is consistantly faster (see report-deepseq.html and
> report-gdeepseq.html). The criterion benchmark can be found on the
> bitbucket repo at http://mu.org/~mux/report-deepseq.html.

When running criterion benchmarks use the -g flag to prevent
benchmarks from interfering with each other due to GC. Also, set a
high initial heap size (e.g. -H1G) so the benchmarks that run first
don't have to pay the price of GHC growing the heap.

-- Johan