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Re:Rust vs. Haskell by pjmlp on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:37AM (#34789025)
Also Haskell is getting linear types, which gets us the best of both worlds, GC productivity and low level performance when needed.
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Re:Rust vs. Haskell by platz on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:19AM (#34789631)
Every talk I've seen on Haskell linear types is that at best they can do some specific compuatations more efficiently (especially with arrays) but are not a good fit in Haskell to significantly elide GC.
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Re:Rust vs. Haskell by pjmlp on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:29AM (#34789776)
They are on the early days of integrating them, so how could we expect them to refactor GHC all the way already?
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Re:Rust vs. Haskell by ghostwriter on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:25AM (#34789702)
What would be an example of significant elision in this context?
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Re:Rust vs. Haskell by anon291 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:45AM (#34790002)
> but are not a good fit in Haskell to significantly elide GC

That's because the entire haskell ecosystem would have to be rewritten which seems insurmountable.

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