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kccqzy • today at 2:44 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Funny how you mention it is a functional programming torture course, but the Parquet writer introduced in this article is written in a highly imperative style. I have not seen this much IORefs and MutableByteArrays in recent memory.


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okasaki • today at 6:32 AM

That's just what you have to do to get any kind of performance in Haskell because functional programming is pointless.

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