RE: Performance, and algorithms

2000-05-08 Thread Simon Marlow
> * I find it difficult to understand how the code I write translates > into actual algorithms, memory management, etc. Haskell is such a > nice language that it hides all this detail from me :-). So, I'd be > grateful for a reference or two on this area. Manuel pointed out Simon's paper on the

Re: Performance, and algorithms

2000-04-30 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > I'm probably being dense here and not seeing the wood for the trees, > and I've included lots of tedious junk below, but here goes. > > I have a program which runs too slowly. I knew when I wrote it that I > was taking a `naive' approach to the program -

Re: Performance, and algorithms

2000-04-29 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 30-Apr-2000, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using GHC's profiling support. This gives me information > about numbers of `allocations' (which I presume refers to memory > allocations) and does indeed point the finger at the part of the > program that I most suspected anyway.