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Haskell High Performance Programming

By : Samuli Thomasson
Book Image

Haskell High Performance Programming

By: Samuli Thomasson

Overview of this book

Haskell, with its power to optimize the code and its high performance, is a natural candidate for high performance programming. It is especially well suited to stacking abstractions high with a relatively low performance cost. This book addresses the challenges of writing efficient code with lazy evaluation and techniques often used to optimize the performance of Haskell programs. We open with an in-depth look at the evaluation of Haskell expressions and discuss optimization and benchmarking. You will learn to use parallelism and we'll explore the concept of streaming. We’ll demonstrate the benefits of running multithreaded and concurrent applications. Next we’ll guide you through various profiling tools that will help you identify performance issues in your program. We’ll end our journey by looking at GPGPU, Cloud and Functional Reactive Programming in Haskell. At the very end there is a catalogue of robust library recommendations with code samples. By the end of the book, you will be able to boost the performance of any app and prepare it to stand up to real-world punishment.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Haskell High Performance Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Nodes and networking


Though Cloud Haskell processes communicate seamlessly together, they are completely oblivious to how they are connected. The transport layer provided by Network.Transport sits between the processes and a backend that implements the transport.

A Cloud Haskell backend provides on top of a transport layer some sort of peer discovery or allows for a predefined topology. A number of backends have been implemented and more are in development. At the time of writing, there are three well-supported backends available:

  • SimpleLocalNet (distributed-process-simplelocalnet): Fully connected with optional client/slave configuration, TCP transport, and UDP multicast peer discovery

  • P2P (distributed-process-p2p): TCP-transport with peer-to-peer discovery

  • ZooKeeper (distributed-process-zookeeper): TCP transport that uses Apache ZooKeeper as naming registry

Each backend has its use cases. In first development phases, SimpleLocalNet is the easiest choice, but non-existent network topology configuration...