Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-18 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
"Sebastian Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/18/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Simon, >> >> Monday, December 18, 2006, 12:08:49 PM, you wrote: >> >> > My view is that Haskell's performance is very seldom the limiting factor >> >> of course. when someone said abo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-18 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello ajb, > > Monday, December 18, 2006, 4:12:01 AM, you wrote: > >> time. For example, for certain types of problem, Haskell minimises the >> amount of time between the point where I start typing and the point where >> I have the answer. > > of cou

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-18 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:57:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ... but I wonder: GPG, AFAIK undertakes some special measures to >> ensure that neither clear text nor private keys are paged out to the >> disk (since it might be recovered from th

[Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-19 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, don't concentrate on this particular example. All I say is that: > - sometimes I get efficient programs in Haskell right away (I my case > quite often, but YMMV) > - sometimes efficiency doesn't matter > I don't think it is contradictory, es

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-19 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> You could just mlock() everything allocated by the RTS... >> >> Brute force. :-) Certainly the most simple way to do it. But is that >> option already here (say in ghc), or would one have to patch the >> runtime for that? > > Note also th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-19 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Tomasz, > > Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 3:19:52 PM, you wrote: >>> why you (and Donald) don't want to understand me. i say that imperative >>> Haskell code is more efficient > >> Your statement is too general to deserve answering. > > can you pr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Optimization fun

2007-02-11 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
"Rafael Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've always found the following definition of the sieve of eratosthenes > the clearest definition one could write: > > sieve [] = [] > sieve (x:xs) = x : sieve [y | y <- xs, y `mod` x /= 0] > It doesn't perform better than Augustsson's solution. It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Algorithms

2007-03-18 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
"P. R. Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P. R. Stanley: > > "When you write a general solution for a class of problems, as > opposed > > to a specific solution to a single problem, you have written an > algorithm." > > Discuss! > > P. R. Sta

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-28 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Miles Sabin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dougal Stanton wrote, >> I'd guess there should be a way to get the libreadline4 installed >> from your package manager. Something like "sudo yum install >> libreadline4" maybe? I don't use FC myself, so can't help further. > > It's even easier than that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-30 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
> 5) The "gigantic README" with it's "obscure note" is here > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_661.html a few lines away from > the download link. You can probably read it in the time it takes you > to find and click the download link. Much quicker than waiting for a > configure script to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

2007-04-30 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
brad clawsie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 4) The fix to the "bug" is simply download and install the libreadline4 >> shared object. No recompilation or reinstallation necessary. > > i'm not sure if this has been addressed - but is there a specific > reason an older version of the readline l

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Silly mail client

2007-05-06 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, this is hacking me off now... Does ANYBODY know how I can convince > Thunderbird to send replies to Haskell Cafe rather than sending them > to the original poster? This is really becoming tiresome... My best approach to that has been to explicitely

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Silly mail client

2007-05-06 Thread ls-haskell-developer-2006
Chris Eidhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I did was replacing the "Reply" button in my toolbar with > "Reply All". The only problem is that I always use Cmd+R instead of > clicking a button, but I'm at least a little bit closer. (and: No top posting please.) Yes, I just found, that h