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mpickering.github.io
Personal blog · mpickering.github.io/postsprogramming
mpickering.github.io is a personal blog at mpickering.github.io about programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about compiler optimisations. The one comment discusses Haskell's user-defined rewrite rules as a way to help GHC optimise code, and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I'm posting this as a top-level comment, but it's really a reply to the discussion downthread about compilers being able to work magic if we let them. Better still, why not help them? Something I took for granted for the longest time about Haskell (which remains the only language I know of with the feature) is the ability to write user-defined "rewrite rules". You can say, "okay, GHC, I know for a fact that if I use…
Comment linking /posts/2017-03-20-inlining-and-specialisation.html
on “Compiler Optimizations are Awesome”Submitted Automatically Applying HLint Suggestions as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell Language Server, binaries and installation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GHC Plugins for Haskell as a story · 2 points
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