Hi everyone,
I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.5 of package vector, a
high-performance Haskell array library with a powerful loop fusion framework.
The main highlights compared to previous versions are:
* DPH-style unboxed vectors (in Data.Vector.Unboxed) which use associated
types to
select the appropriate unboxed representation depending on the type of the
elements.
* A redesigned interface between mutable and immutable vectors. In
particular, the
popular unsafeFreeze primitive is now supported for all vector types.
* Many new operations on both immutable and mutable vectors.
* Significant performance improvements.
The library comes with a fairly complete testsuite (mainly thanks to Max
Bolingbroke) and is quite stable by now. Barring various disasters, I expect
to release version 1.0 in the next 3 to 4 months.
The release is accompanied by a new version of the NoSlow array benchmark
suite. A few quite meaningless preliminary benchmarks are available at:
http://unlines.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/vector-0-5-is-here-2
Both vector and NoSlow are on Hackage. Hackers can get the darcs repos from
http://code.haskell.org/vector
and
http://code.haskell.org/NoSlow
Enjoy!
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