Don Stewart

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Back to old tricks, or, baby steps in Rust

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I’ve been learning Rust for the past twenty days or so, working through the Blandy & Orendorff book, coding up things as I go. Once I got into playing with Rust traits and closures and as…

Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance

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After the last post about high performance, high level programming, Slava Pestov, of Factor fame, wondered whether it was generally true that “if you want good performance you have to write C…

Multicore Programming in Haskell Now

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Here are the slides source for today’s DEFUN tutorial: Multicore Programming in Haskell Now! Multicore computers are here: is your programming language ready for it? Haskell is: you can take …