Achim Schneider wrote:
1) traverse the list less often.
Luke Palmer wrote:
Philip Müller wrote:
If someone here finds the time to look at my code and give me some hints, that would really be nice.
There are probably a few other tricks you could do, but I think I identified the main factors.
List concatenation (++) takes time proportional to the length of the first list. In other words, every (xs ++) traverses xs again. So, things like (x ++ "\n") are expensive. Better write writeCSV as writeCSV = unlines . map (concat . intersperse "," . map show) Here, unlines is a library function which implements your (\x -> x ++ "\n") . concat . intersperse "\n" but slightly more efficiently. In general, difference lists are better for output (concatenation) than Strings and ByteStrings. So, if you want to squeeze even more speed out of your program, use those. Regards, apfelmus