Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Reading files efficiently

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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a) Compile your code with GHC instead of interpreting it. GHC is blazing fast.

That's one answer I suppose! I quite liked using Hugs for that particular program because it's a script that I didn't want to spend time compiling. Oh well, it's not that important.

You can use 'ghci' as well -- it's much like hugs.

I did notice that the script runs much quicker with runghc rather than runhugs. Is there any way of making runghc work with a script whose name doesn't end ".hs"?

Well, I know this works: $ cat A.lhs #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell > main = putStrLn "gotcha!" $ ./A.lhs gotcha! But for files with no .hs or .lhs extension? Anyone know of a trick? -- Don