Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANN] lvish 1.0 -- successor to monad-par

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Gamari
Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the release of our new parallel-programming library, LVish: hackage.haskell.org/package/lvish It provides a Par monad similar to the monad-par package, but generalizes the model to include data-structures other

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Pragma EXPORT

2013-09-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com writes: On 17 September 2013 09:35, Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote: snip None of this is a big deal, but I'm curious about other's opinions on it. Are there strengths to the separate export list that I'm missing? I do like the actual

Re: [Haskell-cafe] name lists

2013-09-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info writes: * Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com [2013-09-17 10:03:41-0400] Another approach might be to introduce some notion of a name list which can appear in the export list. These lists could be built up by either user declarations in the source module

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ideas on a fast and tidy CSV library

2013-07-23 Thread Ben Gamari
Justin Paston-Cooper paston.coo...@gmail.com writes: Dear All, Recently I have been doing a lot of CSV processing. I initially tried to use the Data.Csv (cassava) library provided on Hackage, but I found this to still be too slow for my needs. In the meantime I have reverted to hacking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Array, Vector, Bytestring

2013-06-03 Thread Ben Gamari
Artyom Kazak y...@artyom.me writes: silvio silvio.fris...@gmail.com писал(а) в своём письме Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:16:08 +0300: Hi everyone, Every time I want to use an array in Haskell, I find myself having to look up in the doc how they are used, which exactly are the modules I have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] multivariate normal distribution in Haskell?

2013-04-14 Thread Ben Gamari
Bas de Haas w.b.deh...@uu.nl writes: Dear List, I’m implementing a probabilistic model for recognising musical chords in Haskell. This model relies on a multivariate normal distribution. I’ve been searching the internet and mainly hackage for a Haskell library to do this for me, but so far

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type level natural numbers

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk writes: About two weeks ago we got an email (at ghc-users) mentioning that comparing to 7.6, 7.7.x snapshot would contain (amongst other things), type level natural numbers. I believe the package used is at [1]. Can someone explain what use is such

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSoC Project Proposal: Markdown support for Haddock

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that we implement an alternative haddock syntax that's a superset of Markdown. It's a superset in the sense that we still want to support linkifying Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Taking over ghc-core

2012-11-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Shachaf Ben-Kiki shac...@gmail.com writes: With Don Stewart's blessing (https://twitter.com/donsbot/status/267060717843279872), I'll be taking over maintainership of ghc-core, which hasn't been updated since 2010. I'll release a version with support for GHC 7.6 later today. Thanks! I was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Deriving settings from command line, environment, and files

2012-11-01 Thread Ben Gamari
David Thomas davidleotho...@gmail.com writes: Is there a library that provides a near-complete solution for this? I looked around a bit and found many (many!) partial solutions on hackage, but nothing that really does it all. In coding it up for my own projects, however, I can't help but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Adding custom events to eventlog

2012-10-19 Thread Ben Gamari
Janek S. fremenz...@poczta.onet.pl writes: Dear list, I'm using ThreadScope to improve performance of my parallel program. It would be very helpful for me if I could place custom things in eventlog (e.g. now function x begins). Is this possible? Yes, it certainly is possible. Have a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible bug in Criterion or Statistics package

2012-09-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Aleksey Khudyakov alexey.sklad...@gmail.com writes: On 13.08.2012 19:43, Ryan Newton wrote: Terrible! Quite sorry that this seems to be a bug in the monad-par library. I'm copying some of the other monad-par authors and we hopefully can get to the bottom of this. If it's not possible to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is it worth adding Gaussian elimination and eigenvalues to REPA?

2012-08-31 Thread Ben Gamari
KC kc1...@gmail.com writes: I realize if one wants speed you probably want to use the hMatrix interface to GSL, BLAS and LAPACK. Worth it in the sense of have a purely functional implementation. I, for one, have needed these in the past and far prefer Repa's interface to that of hMatrix. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

2012-06-20 Thread Ben Gamari
Krzysztof Skrzętnicki gte...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Are there any news how things are going? Things have been pretty stagnant yet again. I was more than a bit over-optimistic concerning the amount of time I'd have available to put into this project. Moreover, the tasks required to get Hackage

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell (GHC 7) on ARM

2012-06-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Joshua Poehls jos...@poehls.me writes: Hello Ben, Hello, Sorry for the latency. I'm currently on vacation in Germany so I haven't had terribly consistent Internet access. I've Cc'd haskell-cafe@ as I've been meaning to document my experiences anyways and your email seems like a good excuse

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell outperform C++?

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Kevin Charter kchar...@gmail.com writes: snip For example, imagine you're new to the language, and as an exercise decide to write a program that counts the characters on standard input and writes the count to standard output. A naive program in, say, Python will probably use constant space

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell outperform C++?

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Yves Parès yves.pa...@gmail.com writes: The profiler is certainly useful (and much better with GHC 7.4) What are the improvements in that matter? (I just noticed that some GHC flags wrt profiling have been renamed) The executive summary can be found in the release notes[1]. There was also a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code - Lock-free data structures

2012-04-05 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben midfi...@gmail.com writes: perhaps it is too late to suggest things for GSOC -- but stephen tetley on a different thread pointed at aaron turon's work, which there's a very interesting new concurrency framework he calls reagents which seems to give the best of all worlds : it is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] using mutable data structures in pure functions

2012-03-11 Thread Ben Gamari
I'm sure others will want to chime in here, but I'll offer my two cents. On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:38:56 -0500, E R pc88m...@gmail.com wrote: snip So, again, what is the Haskell philosophy towards using mutable data structures in pure functions? Is it: 1. leave it to the compiler to find

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Gamari
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:59:27 -0800 (PST), Kirill Zaborsky qri...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, But does hackage.haskell.org being down for some hours already has something with the process of bringing up Hackage 2? Nope, it will be some time before we are in a position to touch

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Gamari
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:06:16 +, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 February 2012 01:53, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Ben, snip Ah, here's the link to my last go at getting people to self-organise.

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

2012-02-13 Thread Ben Gamari
Hey all, Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 appears to be the lack of an administrator. It seems to me this is a poor

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SMP parallelism increasing GC time dramatically

2012-01-09 Thread Ben Gamari
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:22:57 +0100, Mikolaj Konarski mikolaj.konar...@gmail.com wrote: Tom, thank you very much for the ThreadScope feedback. Anything new? Anybody? We are close to a new release, so that's the last call for bug reports before the release. Stay tuned. :) As it turns out, I ran

[Haskell-cafe] os.path.expanduser analogue

2011-11-20 Thread Ben Gamari
On the whole, the filepath package does an excellent job of providing basic path manipulation tools, one weakness is the inability to resolve ~/... style POSIX paths. Python implements this with os.path.expanduser. Perhaps a similar function might be helpful in filepath? Cheers, - Ben Possible

Re: [Haskell-cafe] os.path.expanduser analogue

2011-11-20 Thread Ben Gamari
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:02:30 -0500, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 20:36, Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com wrote: [Snip] Although arguably there should be some error checking. Thanks for the improved implementation. I should have re-read my code before

[Haskell-cafe] timezone-series, timezone-olson dependencies

2011-11-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Is there a reason why the current version of the timezone-series and timezone-olson packages depend on time1.3? With time 1.4 being widely used at this point this will cause conflicts with many packages yet my tests show that both packages work fine with time 1.4. Could we have this upper bound

[Haskell-cafe] zlib build failure on recent GHC

2011-11-07 Thread Ben Gamari
With GHC 1ece7b27a11c6947f0ae3a11703e22b7065a6b6c zlib fails to build, apparently due to Safe Haskell (bug 5610 [1]). The error is specifically, $ cabal install zlib Resolving dependencies... Configuring zlib-0.5.3.1... Preprocessing library zlib-0.5.3.1... Building zlib-0.5.3.1... [1 of 5]

[Haskell-cafe] Time zones and IO

2011-11-06 Thread Ben Gamari
Recently I've been working on an iCalendar parser implementation with support for recurrence rules. For the recurrence logic, I've been relying on Chris Heller's excellent time-recurrence package. Unfortunately, it seems we have both encountered great difficulty in cleanly handling time zones. For

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec line number off-by-one

2011-09-21 Thread Ben Gamari
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:27:31 +0200, Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de wrote: Hi, 1. your lookAhead is unnecessary, because your items (atomNames) never start with %. I see. 2. your try fails in (line 12, column 1), because the last item (aka atomName) starts consuming \n,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parsec line number off-by-one

2011-09-21 Thread Ben Gamari
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:37:40 +0300, Roman Cheplyaka r...@ro-che.info wrote: Hi Ben, This is indeed a bug in parsec. Ahh good. I'm glad I'm not crazy. Given that it seems the lookahead is actually unnecessary, looks like I can skip the patch too. Thanks for your reply! Cheers, - Ben

[Haskell-cafe] Parsec line number off-by-one

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Gamari
Recently I've been playing around with Parsec for a simple parsing project. While I was able to quickly construct my grammar (simplified version attached), getting it working has been a bit tricky. In particular, I am now stuck trying to figure out why Parsec is mis-reporting line numbers. Parsec

[Haskell-cafe] Bug in GC's ordering of ForeignPtr finalization?

2011-08-28 Thread Ben Gamari
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:32:13 -0400, Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that the notmuch-haskell bindings (version 0.2.2 built against notmuch from git master; passes notmuch-test) aren't dealing with memory management properly. In particular, the attached test code[1] causes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bug in GC's ordering of ForeignPtr finalization?

2011-08-28 Thread Ben Gamari
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:26:05 -0500, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: One problem you might be running in to is that the optimization passes can notice that a function isn't using all of its arguments, and then it won't pass them. These even applies if the arguments are bound together

[Haskell-cafe] Memory management issue in notmuch-haskell bindings

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Gamari
It seems that the notmuch-haskell bindings (version 0.2.2 built against notmuch from git master; passes notmuch-test) aren't dealing with memory management properly. In particular, the attached test code[1] causes talloc to abort. Unfortunately, while the issue is consistently reproducible, it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: shootout

2011-08-03 Thread Ben Gamari
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:27:07 +0200, Thorsten Hater t...@tp1.rub.de wrote: Non-text part: multipart/mixed Good Evening, can anybody confirm that this implementation is somewhat faster than the current benchmark (at expense of memory consumption)? Cheers, Thorsten Somewhat faster is an