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0 pointswredue1y ago0 comments

Yeah. And one of us is objectively, measurably correct, while the other is speaking in terms of “performance is a premature optimization” Haskell community brainwashing tomfoolery.

I mean. Fundamentally, reducing cache invalidation, reducing pointer following, and branch prediction are like 80% of your performance gains today. Haskell, being bad at all of these, fundamentally will never perform from a language standpoint.

You can make all the “I believe!!!” Arguments you like. Belief is not fact. Fact is that Haskell measurably performs badly, and Haskell idioms will never perform well.

If your organization is okay with accepting that huge performance tech debt, that’s a choice for your org.

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nequo1y ago

> one of us is objectively, measurably correct

In concrete terms, what are these Haskell idioms, what are their measured performance characteristics, and what are alternative idioms for each that perform better? Is there a write up that you could share about this?

I think it would be truly educational. Without that though, your statements appear equally as anecdotal.

epgui1y ago

> the other is speaking in terms of “performance is a premature optimization”

While I do think this is often and perhaps even usually true, it’s irrelevant to anything I’ve said in this thread, and I wasn’t even thinking in these terms.

You’re hearing things.

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