16 Jun
2016
16 Jun
'16
3:11 a.m.
Hi, I am implementing unicode normalization in Haskell. I challenged myself to match the performance with the best C/C++ implementation, the best being the ICU library. I am almost there, beating it in one of the benchmarks and within 30% for others. I am out of all application level tricks that I could think of and now need help from the compiler.
I can't answer your question but I am very happy that someone is looking at performance issues. I am sad that no-one has responded. More generally, is there a story around what is happening to improve performance? Dominic.