Though it does not often get mentioned in the Haskell community, simply
bumping to a new version of GHC can drastically improve the performance of your
code. Here, I have several examples from my
fast-arithmetic
package, which will hopefully give an idea of just how much work has gone into
optimizing code produced by GHC.
Below, I have collected several examples of "uncanny" Haskell. These are things that may be surprising to those who have learned the language merely by doing.
You may have seen my post on co-(Elgot algebras),
in which I mentioned I had been using some exotic recursion schemes for my
gmpint package. I came across a similar example, this time for Mendler-style
recursion schemes. To my knowledge, it is the only published example of
a Mendler-style catamorphism.
I've been looking for an example of co-(Elgot algebra)s for quite some time, and
I came across a surprisingly nice example while working on my
gmpint package.
If you have followed the Haskell community much, you may have heard the phrase "programmable semicolon" in relation to monads. Of course, it is not obvious what is meant by such a thing, so I figured I'd write a short explanation for those already familiar with monads.
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