And, with a lot of help from Koen, I'm about to fold in a much more efficient implementation of Read, which may help. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Hal Daume III [mailto:hdaume@ISI.EDU] | Sent: 03 April 2002 05:36 | To: GHC Users Mailing List | Subject: fast IO in ghc | | | I tend to deal a lot with very very large data files in | Haskell and my current approach to dealing with getting data | out of one program an into another is writing it to a file | using 'show' and then reading it in using 'read'. | Unfortunately, this is very slow and produces very large | files which are very slow to read and write. Is there | another option? I don't care about H98 compatibility, so if | there's a way to somehow just dump ghc's internal | representation (I also don't care about x-platformness) to a | file and read it back, that would be excellent. Other | suggestions are welcome too :). | | -- | Hal Daume III | | "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu | than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-| haskell-users |