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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

Scripting and CLI applications


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • shelly: Shell programming in Haskell, similar to Turtle.

  • turtle: Using Haskell as a shell and scripting language. Very beginner-friendly but perhaps lacking in some ways as a result. Nonetheless portable and exception-safe.

  • cmdargs: Command-line parsers with a Template Haskell empowered interface. Provides compatibility with getopt parsers.

  • haskeline: Bindings to readline with an easy-to-use interface for use in command-line programs.

  • console-program: Defining CLI applications with multiple sub-commands, optional and positional arguments. Supports one-off and readline modes.

  • shake: A build system written in Haskell. A replacement for the make system.

  • propellor: Puppeting software for servers, using a Haskell EDSL for defining configurations.

Haskell is quite well suited for scripting and shell-programming. Both the Shelly and Turtle libraries define APIs that wrap around shell functions. One of the features of Shelly...