[Haskell] Announcing containers 0.5.8.1

There's a lot to see in this one. There are plenty of brand-new functions in Data.Map, Data.Set, and Data.Sequence, including a highly-optimized lens-inspired map alteration function and a brand-new API for merging maps efficiently. Several key map, set, and sequence functions have sped up

Re: GHC Performance / Replacement for R?

Hello, when you parse the CSV fully, you end up creating a lot of small bytestring objects, and each of these adds some overhead. The vectors themselves add up some additional overhead. All of this adds up when you have as many fields as you do. An alternative would be to use a different

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

And... before I had the chance to pull something together, someone else jumped in and made this very nice proposal on the website tracker: https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues/176 That seems like a good basis for discussion :-) (Note that this presupposes is to renaming minimal to the

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: > The choice boils down to whether you want stack to manage your GHC > installation or not. > > I personally find it distasteful. This has been the biggest blocker for > me using stack, it wants to control more of my

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

alias ghci="stack ghci" ? On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:17 AM Gershom B wrote: > On August 30, 2016 at 6:23:36 AM, Simon Marlow (marlo...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Can't we get rid of HP Full? I don't see a use for that any more. > > I think it can be removed from a prominent spot

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

On 29 August 2016 at 17:29, Nicolas Wu wrote: > Hello, > > I think having multiple options is confusing to beginners, and so I'd like > to see a single download option on the download page. > > For me it's important that we have a way for beginners to use tools like ghc >