Hi all, I am using "parsec" to parse the output from "xmame -listinfo" wich is a list of records of the form game ( attr1 value1 ... attrN valueN ) and for approx. 3500 records I got ~250 mb of RSS memory during parsing, wich takes 20 seconds on my athlon 1400. I think that I must have done something wrong (this is the first time I use parsec), here is my parser: --- Begin games = many game game = do openGame x <- manyTill attribute closeGame return (mkGameInfo x) attribute = do whitespaces x <- identifier whitespaces y <- tillEOL return (x,y) openGame = do string "game (" newline closeGame = do string ")" newline newline whitespace = "\v\f\t\r " whitespaces = skipMany (oneOf whitespace) tillEOL = manyTill anyChar newline identifier = many alphaNum --- End Thanks for any advice Vincenzo