The in-place update work in Koka [1] is super impressive. One of my co-workers, Daan Leijen leads the Koka project and hearing his talks about it have been such a privilege. The work around Koka is really convincing me that functional languages will eventually lead the pack in the effort-to-performance trade-off.
Something that came out of the Koka project that everyone should know about is mimalloc [2]: if your built-in malloc is not doing it for you, this is the alternative allocator you should try first. Mimalloc is tiny and it has consistently great performance in concurrent environments.
Something that came out of the Koka project that everyone should know about is mimalloc [2]: if your built-in malloc is not doing it for you, this is the alternative allocator you should try first. Mimalloc is tiny and it has consistently great performance in concurrent environments.
[1]: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc