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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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/
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