Haskell Platform decision: time to bless parsec 3?

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Sat Nov 6 23:53:04 EDT 2010


On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming we move the Parsec 'many' implementation into the Alternative
> class definition, this should have no/little impact on performance for
> all the combinators mentioned by Stephen.

I can't speak for Parsec, but I certainly have a local definition of
"many" in attoparsec, because the Alternative version isn't inlined.
Makes a biggish difference to performance, though I do not recall the
magnitude (2x?).


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