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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

Web technologies


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • Yesod framework: Full-blown MVC web framework, with all the bells and whistles.

  • Snap / Happstack: Also web frameworks, independent from each other. Comprises fewer features than Yesod, but still very useful.

  • blaze-html: Blazingly fast combinator library for HTML templating. Uses ByteStrings and the builder pattern.

  • amazonka / AWS: Bindings to the Amazon Web Service API. The amazonka bindings are autogenerated, full bindings, while aws is more user-friendly but partial.

Developing full-blown web applications in Haskell is easy, and there are multiple great libraries with overlapping features. In short, there are three major big frameworks: Yesod, Snap, and Happstack. Each of these provides basic things such as routing and templating. Yesod has most features of them, but also the steepest learning curve.

For just writing HTML in Haskell, one of the best options is blaze-html. blaze-html provides Haskell combinators for defining HTML...