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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

Tools for research and sketching


The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • ihaskell: Haskell backend for the IPython console and notebook platform.

  • HaTeX: A Haskell EDSL for writing LaTeX documents.

  • H (HaskellR): Embedding R computations into Haskell. Passing data between Haskell and R without copying.

The IPython console and notebook software enable wonderful interactive programming, and ihaskell brings Haskell to it.

For those who fancy it, writing LaTeX documents is completely possible in Haskell. There is some added syntactic noise from using an EDSL, but the strong guarantees and high-level abstractions made available by Haskell are worth it in bigger documents. As a plus, HaTeX makes writing TIKZ images much easier.