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Rewriting Dataframes for MicroHaskell (mchav.github.io)
45 points by internet_points 9 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments




MicroHs binaries are ~100× smaller and ~5–10× slower for this workload; for many data-wrangling tasks that’s a great swap

Under which conditions is that a great swap? A 5x increase in processing times is absolutely huge, and even for moderate data volumes could make a data processing pipeline completely non-viable.


This is what I'm thinking. There are still use cases I would say where small binaries really matter. But then you are really choosing the wrong tool for the job with haskell. I expect an optimized C binary is much, much smaller still.

Local environments, embedded applications, client side processing via wasm... It's a cool project! We can figure out what to do with it later.



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