[Haskell-cafe] Reasoning about performance

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

For lazy evaluation, this is the best resource I've found:
https://hackhands.com/guide-lazy-evaluation-haskell

On 5 December 2015 at 06:31, Dimitri DeFigueiredo <defigueiredo at ucdavis.edu>
wrote:

> Indeed. I find laziness and the non-composable nature of space complexity
> in Haskell to be a much harder beast to deal with than immutability.
>
> There is an *excellent* introduction to the basics of lazy evaluation in
> Graham Hutton's book *Programming in Haskell* (chapter 12), but I don't
> know of any good references beyond that basic level. Let us know if you
> find some!
>
> Dimitri
>
> On 12/4/15 5:35 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>
> Am 04.12.2015 um 09:01 schrieb Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT
> (BHU):
>
> If you're comfortable with imperative data structures, then you can go for
> Okasaki's book:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504
> Which developed from his Ph.D thesis available here:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
>
> People say both are very similar in their contents, but I can't say for
> sure. I've read the first two chapters and found them to be enlightening.
>
>
> I read the book, Okasaki is very enlightening but does not talk about how
> to deal with partially preevaluated data structures.
>
> Regards,
> Jo
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Regards

Sumit Sahrawat
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