[Haskell-cafe] A friendly reminder: Ghent-FPG meeting on 26 June, 2013

2013-06-24 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, This is to remind you that you are kindly invited to attend our next meeting. The original email follows below. The Functional Programming Group Ghent (GhentFPG) [1] is a friendly group for all people interested in functional programming, with a tendency towards Haskell. It is

[Haskell-cafe] Re: proposal: HaBench, a Haskell Benchmark Suite

2010-06-25 Thread Andy Georges
Hi Simon et al, On Jun 25, 2010, at 14:39 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 25/06/2010 00:24, Andy Georges wrote: snip Are there any inputs available that allow the real part of the suite to run for a sufficiently long time? We're going to use criterion in any case given our own expertise

RE: [Haskell-cafe] proposal: HaBench, a Haskell Benchmark Suite

2010-06-24 Thread Andy Georges
with inputs that are open source ... let us know. -- Andy [1] COLE: Compiler Optimization Level Exploration, Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout, CGO 2008 [2] Automated Just-In-Time Compiler Tuning, Kenneth Hoste, Andy Georges and Lieven Eeckhout, CGO 2010 [3] Statistically Rigorous Java

Re: [Haskell-cafe] help optimizing memory usage for a program

2009-03-02 Thread Andy Georges
Hi Kenneth, I've thrown my current code online at http://boegel.kejo.be/files/Netflix_read-and-parse_24-02-2009.hs , let me know if it's helpful in any way... Maybe you could set up a darcs repo for this, such that we can submit patches against your code? -- Andy

[Haskell-cafe] Moving nobench towards HaBench

2009-01-22 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, A while back, we had a discussion on #haskell about assembling a Haskell benchmark suite, that is suitable for doing performance tests. A preliminary page was erected athttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaBench . In the meantime, Donald Steward extended the original nofib suite

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Cookbook?

2007-03-07 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, On 1 Feb 2007, at 00:50, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: Also see that sequence.complete.org has many code snippets in the blog section. What would be a good way to systematize all such snippets together with hpaste.org and those scrolling through the mailing list? Perhaps some kind of ontology of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] proposal: HaBench, a Haskell Benchmark Suite

2007-01-28 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, Following up and the threads on haskell and haskell-cafe, I'd like to gather ideas, comments and suggestions for a standarized Haskell Benchmark Suite. The idea is to gather a bunch of programs written in Haskell, and which are representative for the Haskell community (i.e. apps,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] proposal: HaBench, a Haskell Benchmark Suite

2007-01-28 Thread Andy Georges
On 28 Jan 2007, at 12:57, Joel Reymont wrote: On Jan 28, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Andy Georges wrote: it is nice to know that e.g., Data.ByteString performs as good as C, but is would be even nicer to see that large, real-life apps can reach that same performance. What about using darcs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Package rdtsc for reading IA-32 time stamp counters

2007-01-04 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, version 1.0 of package rdtsc has just been released. This small package contains one module called 'Rdtsc.Rdtsc'. I am wondering what it would take to get rdpmc in there as well. Of course, you'd need some way to set the pmcs before running, but that can be done using e.g. perfctr.

Re: Low-level Haskell profiling [Was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project]

2006-12-21 Thread Andy Georges
Alexey, Well, AFAIK, PAPI abstracts away the platform dependencies quite well, so I guess your code can be run straightforward on all IA-32 platforms (depending on the events you wish to measure, which may or may not be present on all platforms). PowerPC, Itanium, Mips, Alpha should work

Low-level Haskell profiling [Was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project]

2006-12-20 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, The GHC head can currently build against PAPI[1], a library for gathering CPU statistics. I did not know that. I know PAPI, though I prefer using perfctr directly, at least for what I'm doing (stuff in a JVM) [1], [2], [3]. At the moment you can only gather such statistics for AMD

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

2006-12-18 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, I have to dispute this Bulat's characterisation here. We can solve lots of nice problems and have high performance *right now*. Particularly concurrency problems, and ones involving streams of bytestrings. No need to leave the safety of GHC either, nor resort to low level evil code.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Aim Of Haskell

2006-12-12 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, Actually, the more I think of it, the more I think we should rename the language altogether. It seems like people say Haskell with stress on the first syllable if they were either on the committee or learned it inside academia, and Haskell with stress on the second syllable if they learned

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Aim Of Haskell

2006-12-12 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, On 13 Dec 2006, at 00:17, Joachim Durchholz wrote: Kirsten Chevalier schrieb: I think that it would serve this community well if somebody was able to achieve a better understanding of the social reasons why some programming languages are adopted and some aren't. I think all of us already

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-11 Thread Andy Georges
On 11 Dec 2006, at 19:35, Kirsten Chevalier wrote: On 12/11/06, Andrew Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, perhaps if nothing else, we could use a wikibook to collaboratively work on the structure of such a book, and then from that you could publish a real book. I don't really know the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-11 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, I wonder if a similar theme is apropriate for proposed book. Graphics and sounds give a very direct feedback to the programmer, and I expect that helps with the motivation. Perhaps a single largish application could be the end product of the book. Like a game or something. You'd start off

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Aim Of Haskell

2006-12-10 Thread Andy Georges
Hi, one particular thing that we still lack is something like book Haskell in real world We need a 'Dive into Haskell' book. -- Andy ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trace parser

2006-07-10 Thread Andy Georges
Hi Lemmih, Have you tried profiling the code? You can find a guide to profiling with GHC here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/profiling.html I did that ... it shows that updateState is retaining most data (-hr switch), as well as updateMap, which is increasing it's

[Haskell-cafe] Trace parser

2006-07-06 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, I'm looking for a bit of help (ok, a lot) the speed up my program which I use to build a calltree out of an annotated program execution trace. To give you an idea about the sluggishness at the moment, for a trace containing 70MB, it has been running for about 10 hours straight

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't explain this error

2005-07-12 Thread Andy Georges
On 12 Jul 2005, at 14:39, Dinh Tien Tuan Anh wrote: parts 0 = [[]] parts x = [concat (map (y:) parts(x-y) | y-[1..(x `div` 2)]] First of all ... there is a ) missing ... I guess the line should read parts x = [concat (map (y:) parts(x-y) ) | y-[1..(x `div`

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't explain this error

2005-07-11 Thread Andy Georges
On 11 Jul 2005, at 17:37, Dinh Tien Tuan Anh wrote: sumHam :: Integer - Float sumHam n = sum [1/x | x-[1..n]] Try this: sumHam :: Integer - Float sumHam n = sum [1.0/(fromIntegral x) | x-[-1..n]] -- Andy ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Solution to Thompson's Exercise 4.4

2005-03-12 Thread Andy Georges
Hi all, when this example occurs in the text the new Haskell coder has not been introduced to most of what you suggest. I didn't realise that. All apologies. mvg, Andy ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Solution to Thompson's Exercise 4.4

2005-03-11 Thread Andy Georges
Hi Kaoru, I have been working through the exercises in Thompson's The Craft of Functional Programming 2nd Ed book. I am looking for a solution web site for Thompson's book. Or maybe the people here can help. In exercise 4.4, I am asked to define a function howManyOfFourEqual :: Int - Int