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This is really cool! Of all the ways to get numerical and statistical capabilities into Haskell this seems to be the right balance of pragmatic and ambitious.

I wonder if there any surprising linker optimizations that happen because the R interpreter is in the same binary as the Haskell.

Also the body text font sucks.

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It sounds like the embed the interpreter which would make it impossible for the linker to really do much. Even if it could, my understanding here is that the R interpreter is mostly just calling out to native C precompiled functions which would be another barrier.

Cross-language linker optimizations is an active area of research though so it’s a good instinct. Rust is definitely trying to do this across FFI boundaries with C/C++ code.

> the body text font sucks.

Could benefit ot a 1.5 linespacing and a slightly shorter textwidth, for sure.

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