As someone who feels like they know next to nothing about compilers and how they work, I found this really pleasantly easy to follow. This is a really good talk!
SPJ’s talks (and papers!) are always excellent. He addresses subtle topics with lucidity rare across both industry and academia, never mind among Haskell fans ;)
Other thing he has is enthusiasm which gets audience motivated. Just a great presenting style. Another I know a bit like that from CompSci is Anil Madhavapeddy. He’s always joyous and full of energy with good info on things like MirageOS.
With the classic 360p/comic sans. The secret truth is that all GHC development was accomplished in a few furious months of work in 1991 and the results are being drip-fed out so that systemic shock does not destroy the programming community.
Haha. That’s oil, finance, media, and big firms selling legacy software for mission-critical systems at Fortune 500. Haskell folks are the rebels trying to shake the system up. Whose main proponent works at one of top firms I just described. He aims to break the shackles of the system from within using their own money. A programming subversive, maybe? :)
Anyone know if there’s a plan to update Vector to eliminate the Skip constructor from streams? I imagine they’d want to wait at least a few months so people can update their compilers, but I’m curious what the performance difference is.
As someone who feels like they know next to nothing about compilers and how they work, I found this really pleasantly easy to follow. This is a really good talk!
SPJ’s talks (and papers!) are always excellent. He addresses subtle topics with lucidity rare across both industry and academia, never mind among Haskell fans ;)
Other thing he has is enthusiasm which gets audience motivated. Just a great presenting style. Another I know a bit like that from CompSci is Anil Madhavapeddy. He’s always joyous and full of energy with good info on things like MirageOS.
With the classic 360p/comic sans. The secret truth is that all GHC development was accomplished in a few furious months of work in 1991 and the results are being drip-fed out so that systemic shock does not destroy the programming community.
Haha. That’s oil, finance, media, and big firms selling legacy software for mission-critical systems at Fortune 500. Haskell folks are the rebels trying to shake the system up. Whose main proponent works at one of top firms I just described. He aims to break the shackles of the system from within using their own money. A programming subversive, maybe? :)
Anyone know if there’s a plan to update Vector to eliminate the Skip constructor from streams? I imagine they’d want to wait at least a few months so people can update their compilers, but I’m curious what the performance difference is.