[Haskell-cafe] Substantial (1:10??) system dependencies of runtime performance??

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, for quite a while now, I have experienced this issue with some curiosity; yesterday I had it again, when a program that took well over one hour before only needed about ten minutes, after a system reboot (recent Ubuntu) and with no browser started -- finally deciding to post this. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Substantial (1:10??) system dependencies of runtime performance??

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Gwern, thanks for the interesting info. I quite often have processing of CSV file data of about 100M-1G done. Thanks a lot, Nick 2013/2/2 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Nick Rudnick nick.rudn...@gmail.com wrote: Roughly, I would say the differences

[Haskell-cafe] IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE (4GB on Win64) ... any best practices??

2012-07-31 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear Haskellers, did anybody of you stumble about surprisingly having a 2GB memory limit on Win64? I admit I didn't get it at once (just about to finish a complete memcheck... ;-) -- but of course there already is a discussion of this:

[Haskell-cafe] Efficient temporary file storage??

2012-01-23 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, if you want to temporarily store haskell data in a file – do you have a special way to get it done efficiently? In an offline, standalone app, I am continuously reusing data volumes of about 200MB, representing Map like tables of a rather simple structure, key: (Int,Int,Int) value:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] linear logic

2011-02-22 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Vasili, not understanding clearly «in a categorical logic sense» -- but I can be sure you already checked out coherent spaces, which might be regarded as underlying Girard's original works in this sense?? I have a faint idea about improvements, but I don't have them present at the moment.

[Haskell-cafe] Possibility to implant Haskell GC into PostgreSQL interesting?

2011-02-22 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, recently, at an email conversation with pgsql hackers I had a quick shot, asking about their position to somebody replacing their palloc GC -- having roughly in mind that either here or on a Mercury mailing list (where there's a similar case with a pure declarative language and a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] H98, OOHaskell - getting started with objects in Haskell

2011-01-14 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Philipp, depending on what engineering calculations you are interested in, you might like http://timber-lang.org/ , a direct descendant of O'Haskell, targeted at embedded real-time systems. If you are just stepping out of the OO programming world, it might be helpful to imagine OO as a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Small flexible projects a possible niche for Haskell - your statement, please...

2010-07-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
for early demand strongly reminds me of our concepts of knowledge techniques -- it is my hope that this is possible. Thanks a lot, Nick Paul Johnson wrote: On 16/07/10 05:41, Nick Rudnick wrote: In consequence, an 8-student-project with two B.Sc. theses is raised as a pilot to examine

[Haskell-cafe] Small flexible projects a possible niche for Haskell - your statement, please...

2010-07-15 Thread Nick Rudnick
Dear all, besides good ambitions in many other areas, it is interesting to see that a great number of present Haskell projects is run by a very small number of persons and even some parts of the usual developer's toolkit, like e.g. Haddock, seem to contribute to it. Has the Haskell culture

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Merge hsql and HDBC -- there can only be one!

2010-07-07 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Chris, these are good questions -- actually, you might have mentioned Takusen, too. Clearly, HDBC is the largest of these projects, and there are lots of things well done there. Takusen has an interesting approach, and I would like to see a discussion here about the practical outcomes,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional programming techniques in small projects

2010-06-21 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Markus, I am afraid your questions are formulated quite narrowly so that people you might like to reach might not feel addressed -- so it might be helpful to ask yourself how your subject might look in the perspective of an average Haskeller, if a such dies exist at all. At first, please

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hdbc-mysql fails to compile

2010-02-25 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Thomas, up to 3/3/2010 I am looking after nearly 100 Haskell newbies in their project end phase -- but Marc Weber promised to kick my ass in time so I look after the hsql-XXX repos. Anyway, I just uploaded 1.8.1, since it seems to work. Cheers, Nick Thomas Girod wrote: replying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problems linking hsql-mysql

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Maciej, I will try to reproduce the error -- could you send me your both *.cabal files (for hsql hsql-mysql), if you have changed anything, and your system configuration. Is this extremely urgent? I ask this, as these days exactly the end phase of the projects of about 100 beginner

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-20 Thread Nick Rudnick
A place in the hall of fame and thank you for mentioning clopen... ;-) Just wanting to present open/closed as and example of improvable maths terminology, I oversaw this even more evident defect in it and even copied it into my improvement proposal, bordered/unbordered: It is questionable

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-20 Thread Nick Rudnick
Richard O'Keefe wrote: On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Nick Rudnick wrote: Please tell me the aspect you feel uneasy with, and please give me your opinion, whether (in case of accepting this) you would rather choose to consider Human as referrer and Int as referee of the opposite -- for I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Restricted categories

2010-02-20 Thread Nick Rudnick
Alexander Solla wrote: You specifically ask withConstraintsOf to accept only Suitable2's when you say withConstraintsOf :: Suitable2 m a b = m a b - (Constraints m a b - k) - k But you aren't saying that the argument of withConstraintsOf IS a Suitable2, when you say: instance (RCategory c1,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
and the «psychologism» becoming possible (- cf. CCCs, Toposes). Con: Personalized meaning has an association with somewhat unfriendly behaviour. Anybody to drop a comment on this? Cheers, Nick Sean Leather wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 04:27, Nick Rudnick wrote: I haven't seen anybody

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
14:48:08 schrieb Nick Rudnick: even in Germany, where the term «ring» seems to originate from, since at least a century nowbody has the least idea it once had an alternative meaning «gang,band,group», Wrong. The term Ring is still in use with that meaning in composites like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
that this approach would be of great help in learning category theory. All the best, Nick Hans Aberg wrote: On 18 Feb 2010, at 14:48, Nick Rudnick wrote: * the definition of open/closed sets in topology with the boundary elements of a closed set to considerable extent regardable as facing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Gregg Reynolds wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Nick Rudnick joerg.rudn...@t-online.de mailto:joerg.rudn...@t-online.de wrote: IM(H??)O, a really introductive book on category theory still is to be written -- if category theory is really that fundamental (what I believe, due

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Mike, so an open set does not contain elements constituting a border/boundary of it, does it? But a closed set does, doesn't it? Cheers, Nick Michael Matsko wrote: - Forwarded Message - From: Michael Matsko msmat...@comcast.net To: Nick Rudnick joerg.rudn...@t-online.de

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
set contains its interior, which is the part of the set without its boundary and is contained in its closure - for a given set x, Interior(x) is a subset of x is a subset of Closure(x). Mike - Original Message - From: Nick Rudnick joerg.rudn...@t-online.de To: Michael Matsko msmat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hans Aberg wrote: On 18 Feb 2010, at 19:19, Nick Rudnick wrote: agreed, but, in my eyes, you directly point to the problem: * doesn't this just delegate the problem to the topic of limit operations, i.e., in how far is the term «closed» here more perspicuous? * that's (for a very simple

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Solla wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Nick Rudnick wrote: Back to the case of open/closed, given we have an idea about sets -- we in most cases are able to derive the concept of two disjunct sets facing each other ourselves, don't we? The only lore missing is just a Bool: Which term fits

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Gregg Reynolds wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de mailto:daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010 19:55:31 schrieb Nick Rudnick: Gregg Reynolds wrote: -- you agree with me it's far away from every day's common

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hans Aberg wrote: On 18 Feb 2010, at 23:02, Nick Rudnick wrote: 418 bytes in my file system... how many in my brain...? Is it efficient, inevitable? Yes, it is efficient conceptually. The idea of closed sets let to topology, and in combination with abstractions of differential geometry led

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Alexander Solla wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Nick Rudnick wrote: my actual posting was about rename refactoring category theory; closed/open was just presented as an example for suboptimal terminology in maths. But of course, bordered/unbordered would be extended by e.g. «partially

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010 19:19:36 schrieb Nick Rudnick: Hi Hans, agreed, but, in my eyes, you directly point to the problem: * doesn't this just delegate the problem to the topic of limit operations, i.e., in how far is the term «closed» here more perspicuous

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi Alexander, please be more specific -- what is your proposal? Seems as if you had more to say... Nick Alexander Solla wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Nick Rudnick wrote: Why does the opposite work well for computing science? Does it? I remember a peer trying to convince me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi, wow, a topic specific response, at last... But I wish you would be more specific... ;-) A *referrer* (object) refers to a *referee* (object) by a *reference* (arrow). Doesn't work for me. Not in Ens (sets, maps), Grp (groups, homomorphisms), Top (topological spaces, continuous

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory woes

2010-02-17 Thread Nick Rudnick
I haven't seen anybody mentioning «Joy of Cats» by Adámek, Herrlich Strecker: It is available online, and is very well-equipped with thorough explanations, examples, exercises funny illustrations, I would say best of university lecture style: http://katmat.math.uni-bremen.de/acc/.

[Haskell-cafe] Any way to catch segmentation fault?

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Rudnick
Hi all, doing some work with a regex library I stumbled over some segmentation faults due to illegal byte combinatations. Looking for a way to get this caught some way, I failed in finding any place at GHC (6.10.1) or Hackage libraries where this is covered -- a quick check with HUnit revealed