Don Stewart wrote:
r.kelsall:
(Extracting these questions from my previous thread for clarity.)
Below is my simplest possible program to solve the Fasta shootout benchmark.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout/Fasta
I can see one remaining flaw - the line marked 'Ugly'. What's the best way to get rid of this line?
Any other suggestions for simplifying or improving the program would also be interesting.
This code is about three or four times slower that the current fastest GHC entry for the Fasta benchmark. I'll elaborate it for speed when I've produced the best version regardless of speed.
This is quite nice, and you can probably match the current entry by switching to lazy ByteString IO, as the current entry does.
-- Don
Thanks Don :) I'll try that. The thing I really like about this version is that it localizes the 'breaking the lines at 60 characters' part of the program to just one function. I would never have thought to do this in a language other than Haskell and looking through most of the other language submissions for Fasta I can't see any that abstract this feature. I seem to be able to think more clearly in Haskell. Richard.