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by capitalsigma 1014 days ago
It seems a little disingenuous to call something written in an obscure Haskell dialect a "high performance UDP packet parser"
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Why? Looks like they're doing realtime network monitoring for security purposes. Sounds like a high performance application to me. Haskell has a reputation for being slow, but the proof is in the pudding - and what's being asserted is that a stronger type system enables better optimization.
Interesting - I didn't realise the performance of a system was measured in how "obscure" the source language is.

(edit: I am Australian - this is sarcasm.)

I’m also Australian and can confirm this was sarcasm