[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: DrIFT 2.2.1 - support for Data.Binary

2007-01-25 Thread John Meacham
DrIFT 2.2.1 is out and now has support for the Data.Binary module. The old 'Binary' has been moved to 'BitsBinary' and 'Binary' now refers to the new 'Data.Binary' version of the library. the homepage is at: http://repetae.net/~john/computer/haskell/DrIFT/ the current list of deriving rules it k

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

2007-01-25 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
dons: > > Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell > -- > > The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new, > pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

2007-01-25 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell -- The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new, pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available from Hac

Re: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi, I recently re-ran most of the benchmarks after we changed the following: A couple of things I changed recently on the shootout are: 1. I reran the various tests using higher 'N' values to force more work to be done. 2. I upgraded to the most recent GHC avaliable through Debian. 3. I don'

[Haskell] jhc - call for volunteers

2007-01-25 Thread John Meacham
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Maybe if we had a greater number and variety of optimising compilers > we'd be able to more freely experiment with optimisation techniques in > different settings. At the moment GHC is all there is (with Jhc not > ready for mainstream

Re: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Kirsten Chevalier
On 1/25/07, John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:55:37AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: > Clean has also declined in these benchmarks but not that much as Haskell. > According to John van Groningen Clean's binary-trees program in the previous > shootout version used lazy

Re: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread John Meacham
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:55:37AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: > Clean has also declined in these benchmarks but not that much as Haskell. > According to John van Groningen Clean's binary-trees program in the previous > shootout version used lazy data structure which resulted in lower memory > usage

Re: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Kenneth Hoste
(Simon and Andy, if you guys got this twice, sorry about the double mail) On 25 Jan 2007, at 09:55, Simon Marlow wrote: Forwarding on behalf of Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Original Message From: Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps making a collective

[Haskell] FW: A history of Haskell

2007-01-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
[Sorry to spam you, but I got the URL wrong. Darn!] Many of you will know that Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Phil Wadler and I have been working on a paper called A History of Haskell: being lazy with class which will appear at this year's ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Confe

[Haskell] A history of Haskell

2007-01-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Many of you will know that Paul Hudak, John Hughes, Phil Wadler and I have been working on a paper called A History of Haskell: being lazy with class which will appear at this year's ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) San Diego, California, June 9-10, 200

RE: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/msg18863.html (It was Simon Marlow actually, but we are joined at the hip so it hardly matters) | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Reymont | Sent: 25 January 2007 09:01 | To: Simon Mar

Re: [Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Joel Reymont
Where are SPJs disclosed comments from Brent Fulgham? On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Forwarding on behalf of Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Original Message From: Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear fellows, It is ironic that just after SPJ di

[Haskell] [Fwd: Re: Computer Language Shootout]

2007-01-25 Thread Simon Marlow
Forwarding on behalf of Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Original Message From: Andrzej Jaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear fellows, It is ironic that just after SPJ disclosed Comments from Brent Fulgham on Haskell and the shootout the situation has radically changed for th