Haskell High Performance Programming

Boost the performance of your Haskell applications using optimization, concurrency, and parallel programming

Key Features

• Explore the benefits of lazy evaluation, compiler features, and tools and libraries designed for high performance
• Write fast programs at extremely high levels of abstraction
• Work through practical examples that will help you address the challenges of writing efficient code

Book Description

What you will learn

• Program idiomatic Haskell that s also surprisingly efficient
• Improve performance of your code with data parallelism, inlining, and strictness annotations
• Profile your programs to identify space leaks and missed opportunities for optimization
• Find out how to choose the most efficient data and control structures
• Optimize the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and runtime system for specific programs
• See how to smoothly drop to lower abstractions wherever necessary
• Execute programming for the GPU with Accelerate
• Implement programming to easily scale to the cloud with Cloud Haskell

Who this book is for

To get the most out of this book, you need to have a working knowledge of reading and writing basic Haskell. No knowledge of performance, optimization, or concurrency is required.