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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

Persistent storage, SQL, and NoSQL


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • acid-state and safecopy: These libraries go hand in hand, giving a lightweight, disk-stored database of Haskell values with strong ACID guarantees and migrations.

  • persistent: A by-product of the Yesod web framework, persistent is a backend-agnostic high-level query abstraction over SQL-like databases. Provides type-safe models with automatic schema migrations.

  • esqueleto: Add type-safe SQL query EDSL that works with the persistent library and its models.

  • HDBC: A SQL database abstraction layer similar to persistent except lower level. Provides transactions and marshalling of SQL values to Haskell values and the other way around.

  • HDBC-odbc: Hook any ODBC-enabled database connection to HDBC.

  • persistent-odbc: Hook any ODBC-enabled database connection to persistent via HDBC-odbc. Adds model and migration support.

acid-state and safecopy

The acid-state package provides a very good little database when the database can...