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Big fucking deal 1 May 2013 | 11:27 am
Quoth Wikipedia: Big data[1][2] is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applicatio...
What’s in a number? criterion edition 14 Apr 2013 | 06:01 am
[Edit: a few hours after I wrote this post, I wrote some code to get rid of the inflation phenomenon it describes, and I'll publish a corresponding update to criterion shortly. See below for details, ...
What’s good for C++ is good for … Haskell!? 20 Mar 2013 | 11:29 pm
A few days ago, my Facebook colleague Andrei Alexandrescu posted a note entitled Three Optimization Tips for C++, which reminded me that I had unfinished business with Haskell’s text package. I took h...
A major new release of the Haskell hashable library 14 Dec 2012 | 05:29 am
I have spent quite some time over the last couple of months improving the Haskell hashable library, and all of my efforts eventually turned into a near-complete rewrite of the library. The 1.2 release...
A fast new SipHash implementation in Haskell 3 Oct 2012 | 01:30 am
I’ve recently been talking with Johan Tibell about submitting his hashable package to become a part of the Haskell Platform. Once we get that submission accepted, we can fold Johan’s excellent hash-ba...
The case of the mysterious explosion in space 12 Sep 2012 | 10:00 pm
The case of the mysterious explosion in space A few months ago, reports began to filter in of an unhappy problem with the Haskell text package: it was causing huge object files to be generated when a ...
Performance: yes, it’s worth looking at the small stuff 25 Jun 2012 | 11:17 pm
While I was in New York for QCon last week, the temperatures started out quite mild, but soared back to their usual sweltering summertime levels by midweek. I thus found myself confined to my hotel ro...
(re)announcing statprof, a statistical profiler for Python 10 Apr 2012 | 02:51 am
Back in 2005, Andy Wingo wrote a neat little statistical profiler named statprof that promptly disappeared into obscurity. It has since languished almost unknown, with a handful of people writing semi...
github is making me feel stupid(er) 9 Apr 2012 | 01:17 am
I’m approaching my fourth anniversary of using github. I should hardly have to state that it’s a wonderful service, and especially so for being kept freely available to the open source community. At t...
aeson 0.4: easier, faster, better 1 Dec 2011 | 02:20 pm
After months of work, and a number of great contributions from other developers, I just released version 0.4 of aeson, the de facto standard Haskell JSON library. This is a major release, with a numbe...
