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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

Working with monads and transformers


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • lifted-base, stm-lifted: Lifting IO operations to arbitrary monad stacks

  • monad-control: Lifting general control operations to any monad (provides liftBaseWith)

  • monad-logger: Adding high-performance and flexible logging facilities to any monad

  • LogicT: A backtracking logic programming monad

  • monad-unlift: Provides more reliable state-saving in monad transformer stacks for a subset of transformers (specifically, monad morphisms)

  • monad-loops: Monad combinators that map, iterate, fold, and unfold with monadic side effects

For choice and considerations of monads and transformers themselves, refer to the discussion in Chapter 2, Choose the Correct Data Structures. Logging with monad-logger and fast-logger is discussed in detail in Chapter 6, I/O and Streaming.

Working with monad transformer stacks is most convenient when the actions of used libraries are readily overloaded over a type-class that permits use of an arbitrary...