Re: [Haskell-cafe] Performance Tuning darcs (a real shootout?)

2006-01-24 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:37:55PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:33 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: what you mean? afaik, there is no standard FastPackedString implementation, but there is some library that with minimal modifications used in darcs, jhc and many other apps I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Performance Tuning darcs (a real shootout?)

2006-01-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:55 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: You can get a quick picture of heap usage with +RTS -Sstderr, by the way. To find out what's actually in that heap, you'll need heap profiling (as you know). [snip] Yes, GHC's heap is mmap()'d anonymously. You really need to find out

[Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, Debian has a system called popularity-contest, which is an opt-in survey of package use. I was curious to see the ranking of darcs among Haskell implementations themselves. The results: Darcs ranks higher than ghc and hugs. #name is the package name; #inst is the number of people

Re: [Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Iavor Diatchki
(note: these are just some random thoughts to get the day started :-)) hi, is this really surprising? compilers (for any language) are only of interest to developers, while most applications written in the language have a wide user base, so i would assume that there are many situations where this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 1/24/06, Jared Updike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to Avoid success at all costs? [1] Jared. [1] seventh slide, Simon Peyton Jones, http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/ I was unaware of that motto. It looks like we'd better do something to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Isaac Jones
Iavor Diatchki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (snip) yet another thing (and this is debian specific) is that i use the darcs distributed with debian, which is old but works fine, The darcs shipped w/ Debian Stable might be oldish, but that's the darcs that was available when Debian was frozen. The

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Guess what ... Tutorial uploaded! :)

2006-01-24 Thread Dmitry Astapov
Evening, Ben. Ben Rudiak-Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00:46 24/1/2006 wrote: BR Dmitry Astapov wrote: http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HitchhickersGuideToTheHaskell BR I like the approach too, but the section on IO actions, which I'm BR reading now, is not correct. It's not true that a -

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs: the first haskell tool more popular than?Haskell itself?

2006-01-24 Thread Chung-chieh Shan
Josh Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: On 1/24/06, Jared Updike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to Avoid success at all costs? http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/haskell-retrospective/ I was unaware of that