[Haskell-cafe] List indexer

2012-09-08 Thread Alex Stangl
Hi, I have written a small wrapper to speed random-access to a list. The usage scenario I have in mind is a stream computation yielding an infinite list, and I want to randomly access elements w/o having to traverse the entire list from the beginning for each access. I suspected something

[Haskell-cafe] package categories

2012-09-08 Thread Sergey Mironov
Hello list. Do we have a guideline for selecting correct category for a package being developed? I'd like to choose between Web.MyLib and Network.MyLib. Or probably just MyLib if I feel ambitious? Sergey. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUCE: Haddock 2.10.0 and 2.11.0

2012-09-08 Thread Simon Hengel
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:19:08AM +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: More seriously, it seems there's an error building even 2.12.0 with GHC 7.6; is that correct? A functional version of Haddock 2.12.0 comes with GHC 7.6.1. This build error only affects you, if you want to use the Haddock

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell with all the safeties off

2012-09-08 Thread Ramana Kumar
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from David Feuer's message of Fri Sep 07 12:06:00 -0400 2012: They're not *usually* desirable, but when the code has been proven not to fall into bottom, there doesn't seem to be much point in ensuring that

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: LambdaCube 3D (purely functional rendering engine) is back in business

2012-09-08 Thread Patai Gergely
Hello all, We recently rebooted the LambdaCube project, which aims to provide a purely functional interface for GPU programming. The details and the background are described in our new blog [1], while the code can be found on GitHub [2]. Cheers, Gergely [1] http://lambdacube3d.wordpress.com/

Re: [Haskell-cafe] performance issues with popCount

2012-09-08 Thread Nicolas Trangez
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 15:55 -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Nicolas Trangez nico...@incubaid.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:07 -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: Have a look at the popCount implementation for e.g. Int, which are written in C and called through the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: LambdaCube 3D (purely functional rendering engine) is back in business

2012-09-08 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Good luck for this new beginning! A. On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:39:36AM +0200, Patai Gergely wrote: Hello all, We recently rebooted the LambdaCube project, which aims to provide a purely functional interface for GPU programming. The details and the background are described in our new blog

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: LambdaCube 3D (purely functional rendering engine) is back in business

2012-09-08 Thread Alvaro Gutierrez
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Patai Gergely patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hello all, We recently rebooted the LambdaCube project, which aims to provide a purely functional interface for GPU programming. The details and the background are described in our new blog [1], while the code can

[Haskell-cafe] JavaScript (SpiderMonkey, V8, etc) embedded in GHC?

2012-09-08 Thread Bob Hutchison
Hi, I've looked around with no success… this surprises me actually. Has anyone embedded SpiderMonkey, V8, or any other relatively decent JavaScript interpreters in GHC (using the FFI)? I did find http://justinethier.github.com/husk-scheme/ which is a scheme R5RS implementation (I could make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell with all the safeties off

2012-09-08 Thread AUGER Cédric
Le Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:20:29 +0100, Ramana Kumar ramana.ku...@cl.cam.ac.uk a écrit : On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from David Feuer's message of Fri Sep 07 12:06:00 -0400 2012: They're not *usually* desirable, but when the code has been

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE vkhs-0.0.3

2012-09-08 Thread Sergey Mironov
I'm happy to announce a new package called VKHS: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/VKHS https://github.com/ierton/vkhs VKHS provides access to Vkontakte [1] (popular Russian social network) API methods. Library can be used to login into the network as a standalone application (OAuth

Re: [Haskell-cafe] package categories

2012-09-08 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 11:04:34AM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote: Hello list. Do we have a guideline for selecting correct category for a package being developed? I'd like to choose between Web.MyLib and Network.MyLib. Or probably just MyLib if I feel ambitious? Sergey. MyLib is discouraged.