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I am always extremely doubtful of these types of blogposts that take a well-known algorithm and somehow beat all others (including academia, bioinformatics tool

• Nebasuke 4y ago
  The article is about how they moved an existing (fast) implementation in Haskell in UTF-16 to an even faster implementation in Haskell by switching to UTF-8. This is stated in the first paragraph. The post they reference, is also very honest: ..., the fastest Haskell implementation of the Aho–Corasick string searching algorithm, which powers string search in Channable. Basically the blog posts show that if you want to program in Haskell and still optimise, this is how you can do it. I think both posts are great resources and don't overstate their claims.
• danschuller 4y ago
  I was taught Haskell at university and I'm old. Looking at it's wiki page it's a 32 year old language not that much younger than 37 year old C++.
• poorlyknit 4y ago
  (author here) I wrote this article during a short internship at Channable. Not to be apologetic but I think these kind of articles are so prevalent because young or unpopular languages usually have worse documentation than established ones (naturally). I basically wrote down the things I learned during my internship that I found noteworthy.