Fantastic work. The improvements to the I/O manager are well worth the price of admission.<p>I'm curious, is work underway to see similar gains made in the I/O manager on Windows?<p>Does Windows provide a similar construct as 'select()' and also something equivalent to the newer epoll/kqueue systems, such that boosting the I/O manager on Windows will be rather trivial, or is the Windows I/O subsystem so different that the GHC I/O manager must be designed completely differently on that platform?
I'm curious about the general effectiveness of the latest versions of GHC in optimizing single-threaded code. We know of huge gains with the parallelism libraries, but I'm wondering what the consensus is for code that's more inherently sequential.
Is there a "Why Haskell?" post somewhere out there? I am just curious about what Haskell brings to the table, what it is good at, and does it have a niche. Is Haskell trying to break its bonds in the niche to get to the wider world in general? All sorts of questions like that.