[Haskell-cafe] torrent for 6.8.1?

2007-11-03 Thread brad clawsie
do torrents exist for 6.8.1? my experience is that people will use torrents if they are offered and they really do lift the pressure from the origin domain (haskell.org) pgpTQvjxj07Kq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] Rose Tree

2007-11-03 Thread Ryan Bloor
Hello, I need help... I am having trouble with rose trees. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8910 11 That is the rose tree that I seek. Data

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why can't Haskell be faster?

2007-11-03 Thread Ketil Malde
Isaac Gouy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ketil Malde wrote: >> [LOC vs gz as a program complexity metric] > Do either of those make sense as a "program /complexity/ metric"? Sorry, bad choice of words on my part. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The question of ByteString

2007-11-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 3, 2007, at 5:34 , Andrew Coppin wrote: (BTW, anybody have any clue what's happening with stream fusion? I remember reading the paper saying "hey, this is how it works and it's cool and we're going to try to replace the whole list library with new stream implementations", but that's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compile-time evaluation

2007-11-03 Thread Alfonso Acosta
Hi Nicholas, > compileTimeEval :: Data a => a -> ExpQ > compileTimeEval = return . toExp > You're telling me all that horrendous pain in implementing toExp and it already exists?!? Yes unfortunately, compileTimeEval already exists in TH, it's called lift compileTimeEval :: Lift a => a -> ExpQ

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why can't Haskell be faster?

2007-11-03 Thread Hugh Perkins
On Nov 3, 2007 5:00 AM, Ryan Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lossless File compression, AKA entropy coding, attempts to maximize the > amount of information per bit (or byte) to be as close to the entropy as > possible. Basically, gzip is measuring (approximating) the amount of > "information"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The question of ByteString

2007-11-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Coppin wrote: Duncan Coutts wrote: Yes, the semantics are different. ByteString is stricter. In some circumstances you could discover that some list is being used sufficiently strictly (spine and element strict) that you could do a representation change to use strict arrays. It is somethi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does GHC limit stack size?

2007-11-03 Thread Adrian Hey
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: because program that require 8mb stack, will probably require 8gb when processing more data :) So.. what? You could say the same about heap, which was rather the point of the earlier thread. Regards -- Adrian Hey ___ Haskell-

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does GHC limit stack size?

2007-11-03 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Abhay, Saturday, November 3, 2007, 1:46:07 PM, you wrote: > Why is there a limitation on the stack size in GHC? because program that require 8mb stack, will probably require 8gb when processing more data :) > Can we have an RTS flag allowing unlimited stack size? -K2000m, afair -- B

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does GHC limit stack size?

2007-11-03 Thread Adrian Hey
Hello, > Why is there a limitation on the stack size in GHC? Like heap where we > can limit the size by -M RTS option but the default is unlimited, why > not let the program use as big a stack as required? If not by default, > then by a separate option? > > Some of the functions that we write in

[Haskell-cafe] Why does GHC limit stack size?

2007-11-03 Thread Abhay Parvate
Hello all, Why is there a limitation on the stack size in GHC? Like heap where we can limit the size by -M RTS option but the default is unlimited, why not let the program use as big a stack as required? If not by default, then by a separate option? Some of the functions that we write in recursiv

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The question of ByteString

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Coppin
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:35 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Well OK, maybe I was a little vague. Let me be a bit more specific... If you do text processing using ByteString rather than String, you get dramatically better performance in time and space. For me, this raises a