On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:49:46AM -0400, Kevin Everets wrote:
I took Georg's, fixed the word count logic and added prettier printing, and then combined it with Sam's main (which I find more elegant, but others may find less straightforward). I think it strikes a good balance between efficiency and elegance.
Then how about a solution like this: I took your program but used my fast fileIterate instead of ,,foldl over getContents''. I also added {-# OPTIONS -funbox-strict-fields #-}, and played a bit to get the best optimisations from GHC. It's about 7 times faster this way, but it's still two times slower than the solution I sent to shootout. Devilish plan: Maybe we could have some variants of fileIterate in GHC's libraries? ;-> I remember that someone proposed similar functions on haskell's lists some time ago, but can't remember who. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links