30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
8:25 p.m.
Josef Svenningsson wrote:
Having said that I must also say that I think that ghc's I/O is fast *enough*. It's just that it doesn't compare very well with other languages. I've never had problems caused by slow I/O in Haskell.
This is the favorite argument of proponents of slow languages ;). But as long as people wait for their computers (to boot up, to run a program, to compile a program, to do a computation, to...) speed is going to be a virtue. Dejan http://www.jelovic.com