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A new pseudo-random number generator for Haskell
I just released version 0.3.3 of the Haskell statistics library, which contains a very fast pseudo-random number generator. The generator is an implementation of George Marsaglia’s MWC256 multiply-with-carry PRNG, which has a period of 28222 (for this reason, it’s sometimes…
A video demo of my Haskell benchmarking framework
Malcolm Wallace has very kindly put a lot of work into publishing video footage from all of the talks at last week’s Haskell Implementor’s Workshop. I gave a very brief, and completely unscripted, demo of the benchmarking framework that I’ve…
Posted in haskell
Lazy functional yak shaving in Haskell
A few weeks ago, I decided that I'd like to focus for a while on getting a 1.0 release of the Haskell text library ready. That work has gone fairly well so far. I've focused on making sure that I…
In which I write again about revision control
Several months ago, I wrote an article on evaluating revision control systems. It was initially published in ACM Queue a few weeks ago, and the article has now made its way (unchanged) to Communications of the ACM. I’m quite happy…
Posted in open source, scm
Slides from my CUFP 2009 keynote talk
I was delighted to be invited to give the keynote talk at this year’s CUFP workshop in Edinburgh. My talk was this morning, and these are the slides I presented. CUFP 2009 Keynote – Real World HaskellView more documents from…
Posted in haskell, open source
Haskell Platform support for Fedora: we’re almost there
I spent a little time earlier today clarifying the Fedora project‘s support for the Haskell Platform. You can read the details here; the summary is that we’re currently four packages short of complete support for the current release of the…
What’s in a text API?
Now that I’ve got the DEFUN 2009 schedule sorted out (you are coming, aren’t you?), I’ve had time to take a breath and think about the Haskell text library again. Its API is currently a clone of the ancient and…
