8 Oct
2004
8 Oct
'04
6:22 a.m.
On 07 October 2004 18:23, Ketil Malde wrote:
Couldn't readFile et al. provide the standard interface, but use hGetBuf tricks (e.g. from your 'wc' entry) behind the curtains?
readFile does do buffering behind the scenes, that's not the problem. The problem is doing the computation on a [Char] instead of a raw buffer of bytes. There are various known techniques that could be used to speed up GHC's implementation of lists, none of which we've ever tried. This might be a good area for experimentation, if anyone's looking for something to do in GHC. Cheers, Simon