Haskell Garbage Collection

Functional programming used to have a bad reputation of being slow mostly due to garbage-collection. The Haskell garbage-collector (GC) actually has received some care and a number of options or programming constructs allow to reduce GC pause times.

Theory

• Generational GC For Haskell
• Optimising GC Overhead
• Incremental GC
• GHC Memory management
• GHC Special Objects

Hands-On Optimization

• Writing Fast Haskell
• Fast XML parser
• Performance Checklist

Real-World Reports

• Parallelism and GC
• Pushers moving away from Haskell to Go for GC reasons
• Is Haskell real-time ready yet?

Systems

There always is a host of interesting things to learn by studying complicated systems.

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Readings in db systems
• How does a database work?

Optimization

It’s a bit harder to find good blog-style material on optimization topics. Besides articles on this site here are some links.

• Multidisciplinary optimization
• Maximizing profitability of inventory

Static and personal site technology

If you read how this blog is built, you’ll figure out that I have some affection for personal and personalized websites. Thus I collect (do not hesitate to send yours to me) other viewpoints on how they built their website.

• My Website is one binary by jes
• XHTMLBoy’s Website recipe
• A list of Cool things people do with their blogs by Wouter Groeneveld

MISC

• gilded tulip