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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

Creating charts and diagrams


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • Chart, Chart-cairo, Chart-diagrams: Rendering 2D charts in Haskell. Supports multiple backends, including Cairo and diagrams.

  • Diagrams: Declaratively generating vector graphics. Supports multiple outputs including Cairo, SVG, PS, and more.

There are two excellent libraries for creating 2D graphics in Haskell: chart and diagrams. The first one is geared towards charting and plotting, whereas the latter is more on EDSL for generative vector graphics.

Both libraries support a wide range of output formats, from vector graphic formats to output directly to GTK windows. Chart even provides some primitive supports for interactivity in charts.