Re: [Haskell-cafe] Need help - my haskell code is over 50 times slower than equivalent perl implementation

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 12:08 -0500, Stuart A. Kurtz wrote:

Might it be more efficient to bypass counting altogether, and just use the Haskell version of stat?

getFileSize :: FilePath -> IO Int64 getFileSize path = do stat <- getFileStatus path let COff fs = fileSize stat return fs

Obviously. I assumed the original author would do something else while processing the file, not just count bytes... Nicolas