The Great GHC Primop Shootout
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I’ve terribly hacked glued together a few microbenchmarks comparing the LLVM primop madness against a more traditional FFI and a native Haskell deserializer. The FFI “parser” used here is a bit contrived as it’s primarly measuring Storable and FFI overhead and does no parsing, but it’s interesting all the same. Send pull requests with a more full featured implementation and I’ll update this post accordingly.