Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Functional programming for processing of large raster images

I think the issue wasn't using functional programming for large image processing, it was using Haskell. OCaml is notoriously fast and strict. Haskell/GHC is... lazy. Everyone knows that laziness is supposed to be a virtue. In practice, though, I'm one of the people who either can't wrap their heads around it or just find themselves having to fight it from the start. Should we all switch to OCaml? I wish I had a criteria to determine when to use Haskell and when to use OCaml. On Jun 21, 2006, at 8:15 AM, minh thu wrote:

Thanks for pointing this out, although I knew that kind of answer via papers about Pan. It means I'll have to improve my compiler writing knowlegde :) mt

2006/6/21, oleg@pobox.com :

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Recently Vo Minh Thu wondered if Haskell (or, I generalize, functional programming) can be of much use for computer graphics programming.

I'd like to point out a project that experimentally shown that functional programming is of great help for processing of large raster images (24-bit PPM files). The paper describing the system has been accepted for `Science of Computer Programming' and is in press:

-- http://wagerlabs.com/